Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 21/AP/0737

Report: see pages 95 to 180 of the main agenda pack and pages 4 to 8 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL: Demolition of existing buildings to allow for the erection of a new building eight storeys in height (plus roof plant and basement) to provide Class E Use Class with office and retail floor space. The development will include improvements to the low line and public realm, cycle parking, provision of a service bay and other associated works.

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report. Members put questions to officers.

Representatives of the objectors addressed the meeting and responded to questions from members of the committee.

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

There were no supporters living within 100 metres of the development site who wished to speak.

Councillor David Watson addressed the committee in his capacity as a ward councillor and responded to questions from members of the committee.

The committee put further questions to officers, asked for clarifications from the applicant’s representatives and the objectors, and discussed the application.

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

RESOLVED:

1.  That planning permission be granted, subject to:

a.  the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, including the replacement of an on-street bike hangar, and

b.  the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 31 October 2023.

2.  If the requirements of (1.) are not met by 31 October 2023 that the Director of Planning and Growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out at paragraph 255 of the report.

Following this the meeting took a ten-minute comfort break, returning at 8:29pm.