Agenda item

Planning Application Number: 24/AP/2585

Report: See pages 59-145 of the main agenda and pages 7-9 of the addendum.

PROPOSAL:

Variation of conditions 1 (Approved plans) and 26 (Number of Bedrooms) of permission ref. 20/AP/2953 dated 14/06/2024 for ‘Redevelopment of 98-104 Rodney Road for a 9 storey (plus basement) building for hotel rooms (Class C1), café, community use, retail use and associated cycle/disabled parking, plant and landscaping’. The proposed amendments include: changes to the internal layout to revise the hotel bedrooms, substituting a portion of en-suite double bedrooms with shared pod-style rooms with shared bathrooms; incorporation of a second escape stair, evacuation lift and firefighting lift; introduction of communal space at 8^th floor for guest use; revised basement layout; revised façade materiality; removal of the lower level basement; revised cycle and refuse storage and substation at ground level and associated elevational changes and changes to servicing arrangements; revised first floor layout of community use and hotel rooms with a reduction of community use area; revised rood plant layout.

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

Members put questions to the 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 the members of the committee.

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

There were no Ward Councillors in attendance.

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

Members asked for the following to be included in the Section 106 agreement:

·  A condition for stays to be limited to no more than 30 days

·  A clause in s106 agreement for details of women only floors to be provided for agreement.

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 revised conditions to those on the June 2024 permission, and the completion of a deed of variation to the original section 106 legal agreement; and

2.  In the event that the requirements of paragraph 1 above are not met by 4 May 2025, the Director of Planning and Growth be authorised to refuse planning permission, if appropriate, for the reasons set out in paragraph 172 of this report.