Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 23/AP/0479

Report: see pages 15 to 143 of the main agenda pack and pages 1 to 12 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:Demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to provide a mixed-use development comprising 444 purpose-built student residential rooms (Sui Generis), 5x 1 bedroom and 3x 2 bedroom affordable residential dwellings (Use Class C3), 1,850 employment floorspace (Use Class E(a) and (g)), in a building of 2 to 11 storeys together with access, cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping and other associated works.

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

There were no objectors wishing to speak.

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, or ward councillors, wishing to speak.

The committee 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 the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, referral to the Mayor of London, and the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 1 December 2023.

2.  That in the event that the requirements of (1.) are not met by 1 December 2023, the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out at paragraph 302 of the report.