Agenda item

At this point, Councillor Richard Livingstone left the top table and sat with the audience. Councillor Kath Whittam took over as chair of the meeting.

Planning Application Number: 23/AP/1317

Report: See pages 8 – 207 of the agenda and pages 1 – 9 of the addendum.

PROPOSAL:

Demolition of the existing building and mixed use redevelopment of the site comprising Purpose-Built Student Housing including associated amenity and ancillary café and cycle workshop (Use Class Sui Generis), a new self-storage facility (Use Class B8), light industrial workspace / incubator units (Use Class E(g)(iii)) and other associated infrastructure. 

The committee heard the officer’s introduction to the report and addendum report.

Members put questions to the officers.

There were no objectors present.

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

There were no supporters present who lived within 100 metres of the development site and wished 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 this Councillor Livingstone left the meeting room.

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

A motion to refuse planning permission was moved, seconded, put to the vote and declared carried.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission for this application be refused for the following reasons: The proposed development would not deliver any conventional affordable housing on site and would fail to contribute to a mixed and inclusive neighbourhood, contrary to Southwark Plan Policies P1 and P5(2), London Plan Policy H15(A) and Draft Regulation 19 Old Kent Road Area Action Plan Policy 4.”