Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 23/AP/0582

Report: see pages 12 to 191 of the agenda pack and pages 1 to 4 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:

Redevelopment to provide a mixed use development comprising student accommodation (Sui Generis) 688 student rooms, residential accommodation, 23 units, all of which would be affordable and equate to 14% habitable rooms on site (Use Class C3), 68 sqm community floor space (Use Class F2) and 1,983 sqm commercial workspace (Use Class E(g)) within two buildings of up to 7 storeys and basement and 34 storeys and basement with associated car and cycle parking, landscaping, public realm and highways improvements.

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the 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 wishing to speak.

Councillor Richard Livingstone addressed the committee in his capacity as a ward councillor and responded to questions from members of the committee, after which he left the meeting room.

The committee put further questions to officers 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:

·  The recommended planning conditions set out in the report and addendum report;

·  The applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement by no later than 28 May 2024;

·  Referral to the Mayor of London.

2.  That, in the event that the Section 106 legal agreement is not completed by 28 May 2024, the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 415 of the report.