Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 24/AP/0918

Report: See pages 8-207 of the main agenda and page 9 – 15 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:

Alteration (including demolition) and extension of the existing office building for use as Offices (Class E(g)(i); Flexible Commercial (Class E) to include additional floorspace through extensions; altered and additional entrances; creation of office amenity terraces and plant enclosures; facade alterations including urban greening and associated works.

Associated works including deconstruction / removal of an existing garage / kiosk structure and provision of new hard and soft landscaping within the public realm including improvements to the Scoop, and other works incidental to the development.

(The site is within the setting of the Grade 1 listed Tower Bridge, the Tower of London World Heritage site, and the Tooley Street and Tower Bridge

Conservation Areas)

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

There were no objectors present and wishing to speak.

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

There were no supporters present and wishing to speak.

There were no ward councillors present and wishing to speak.

A motion to grant planning permission 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, and the applicant entering into an appropriate legal agreement.

2. In the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 30 April 2025 the Director of Planning and Growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 437 of the report.

3. That the Director of Planning and Growth be authorised under delegated authority to make any minor modifications to the proposed conditions and s106 obligations arising out of detailed negotiations with the applicant or the Mayor of London, which may necessitate further modification and may include the variation, addition, or deletion of the conditions as drafted.