Agenda item

Planning application reference 24/AP/1868

Report: See pages 6 to 36 of the agenda pack and addendum page 1.

PROPOSAL

Change of use of one ground floor retail unit and offices at upper floors (Class E) to create 47-bedroom Hotel (Class C1).

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report and members of the committee asked questions of the officers.

A spokesperson for the objectors addressed the committee and responded to questions from members. As part of their objection, they circulated photographs of the site.

The applicant’s agents addressed the committee and responded to questions from members.

There were no supporters present, who lived within 100 metres of the development site and wished to speak.

Councillor Laura Johnson addressed the committee in her capacity as a ward councillor.

A motion to grant the application as per the officer’s recommendation, and subject to the amendments in the addendum report, and subject to a new condition concerning the roof terrace 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 addendum report and the additional conditions agreed during the hearing, one of which was a request to include a lockable refuse storage. This would be subject to the completion of a Section 106 legal agreement.

2.  That in the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not completed by 25 April 2025, the director of planning and growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 59 of the report.