Agenda item

Planning application number: 19/AP/7610

PROPOSAL

Demolition of the existing building and redevelopment of the site to deliver a building of part 10 part 11 storeys (43.2m AOD) comprising 1,438 sqm of light industrial floorspace across the basement, ground, and first floors; 71 residential units (35.38% by habitable rooms) across the upper floors; and associated outdoor communal amenity space, disabled car parking, cycle storage, refuse storage, and landscaping.

This application represents a departure from strategic policy 10 'Jobs and Businesses' of the Core Strategy (2011) and Saved Policy 1.2 'Strategic and Local Preferred Industrial Locations' of the Southwark Plan (2007) by virtue of proposing to introduce residential accommodation in a preferred industrial location.

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report and addendum report. Members of the committee asked questions of the officers.

An objector addressed the committee and responded to questions put by the committee.

The applicant’s representatives addressed the committee, and answered questions put by the committee.

At 8.45 pm the meeting took a five-minute screen break.

There were no supporters who lived within 100 metres of the development site, or ward councillors, who wished to speak.

Following this, the committee put further questions to the officers and discussed the application.

A motion to grant the application was moved, seconded, put to the vote and

declared carried.

RESOLVED:

A.  That planning permission be granted, subject to the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, and referral to the Mayor of London, and the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 1 June 2021.

B.  That the environmental information be taken into account as required by Regulation 30 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessments) Regulations 2017.

C.  That following issue of the decision it be confirmed that the director of planning shall place a statement on the Statutory Register pursuant to Regulation 30 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessments) Regulations and that for the purposes of Regulation 30(1)(d) the main reasons and considerations on which the Local Planning Authority's decision is based shall be set out as in this report.

D.  That in the event that the requirements of (A) are not met by 1 June 2021, the director of planning be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out at paragraph 238 of the report.