Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 23/AP/0948

Report: see pages 22 to 165 of the agenda pack and page 1 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:

Demolition of existing buildings and structures on the site and redevelopment to provide an up to four storey building to accommodate industrial and logistics (Use Class B2, B8 and Class E(g)) plus part ground floor flexible Ea and/or Eb together with plant, landscaping, the formation of new accesses and alterations to existing accesses, associated vehicle and cycle parking and other associated works (as revised on 29.02.2024 and 29.04.2024).

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

Representatives of the objectors addressed the committee and responded to questions put by members of the committee.

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

A representative of supporters of the application living within 100 metres of the development site addressed the committee. The committee did not ask questions of the representative of the supporters.

There were no ward councillors who wished to address the meeting. 

The committee put further questions to officers and discussed the application.

A motion to grant planning permission as on paper 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, the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement, and referral to the Mayor of London.

2.  That in the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 7 April 2025, the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 216 of the report.

The meeting then took a ten-minute comfort break and resumed at 19:56. At this point Councillor Kath Whittam left the top table and sat with the audience.