Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 20/AP/3013

PROPOSAL:

Redevelopment of the site to include demolition of Colechurch House, pedestrian footbridge and walkway and erection of an elevated 22-storey building (+ 4-storey basement) above a public park and providing office floorspace, retail floorspace, restaurant/café floorspace, leisure floorspace (all Use Class E), theatre and a bar (Sui Generis), delivered alongside a replacement pedestrian footbridge, public realm improvements, roof gardens, cycle parking, servicing, refuse, plant areas and other associated works incidental to the development.

The committee considered the officer’s introduction to the report.

Members of the committee asked questions of officer present.

The applicant addressed the committee and answered questions by the committee.

The committee discussed this application and asked further questions of the planning officers.

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

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission is granted subject to conditions, referral to the Mayor of London and the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement; and

2.  That environmental information be taken into account as required by Regulation 26(1) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended); and

3.  That the planning committee in making their decision has due regard to the potential Equalities impacts that are outlined in this report; and

4.  That following the issue of planning permission, the director of planning and growth write to the secretary of state notifying them of the decision, pursuant to Regulation 30(1)(a) of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017; and

5.  That following issue of planning permission, the director of planning and growth place a statement on the Statutory Register pursuant to Regulation 28(1) of the TCP (EIA) Regulations 2017, which contains the information required by Regulation 28 and, for the purposes of Regulation 28(1)(h) being the main reasons and considerations on which the planning committee’s decision was based shall be set out in the report; and

6.  That, in the event that the requirements of (1) are not met by 31 December 2022 that the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in Paragraph 320 of this report.