Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:

21.1 The issuing of an non-immediate Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for Office (B1(a)), Light Industrial (B1(b)) and Storage or Distribution Centre (B8) to Residential (C3) within Strategic Industrial Areas, Locally Significant Industrial Sites and the Alperton Growth Area be approved;

21.2 The issuing of an non-immediate Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for Office (B1(a)) within the Wembley Growth Area be approved; and

21.3 Consideration of the consultation responses and the decision on whether to confirm the Article 4 direction be delegated to the Director of Regeneration and Environment in association with the Lead Member for Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills.

Councillor Shama Tatler, Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills, introduced the report which set out the impact that the existing and proposed permitted development rights had had, or could have in the future. Councillor Tatler informed Cabinet the paper proposed the making of an Article 4 Direction for parts of the Borough which would remove the permitted development rights for Office (B1(a)), Light Industrial (B1(b) and Storage or Distribution Centre (B8) to Residential (C3) and would reinstate the need for an express grant of planning permission and as such in the areas in which the Article 4 would have applied, reinstated the primacy of the development plan in shaping the future development of the Borough. Cabinet heard that Article 4 would apply to the areas of Brent which were identified as Growth Areas, Strategic Employment Locations and Locally Significant Industrial Sites where the Council was still the local planning authority. Councillor Tatler added that the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) had already adopted a non-immediate Article 4 direction to prevent change of use of offices and light industrial to residential in its Strategic Industrial Locations (including those in Brent where OPDC was planning authority).  She said that it was proposed that the Article 4 direction to come into force 12 months after consultation commenced and highlighted that a confirmation would be required after consideration of consultation responses.

RESOLVED that:

21.1    The issuing of an non-immediate Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for Office (B1(a)), Light Industrial (B1(b)) and Storage or Distribution Centre (B8) to Residential (C3) within Strategic Industrial Areas, Locally Significant Industrial Sites and the Alperton Growth Area be approved;

21.2    The issuing of an non-immediate Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for Office (B1(a)) within the Wembley Growth Area be approved; and

21.3    Consideration of the consultation responses and the decision on whether to confirm the Article 4 direction be delegated to the Director of Regeneration and Environment in association with the Lead Member for Regeneration, Growth, Employment and Skills.