Issue - meetings

(1)    The prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations set out in the report and supplementary agenda;

(2)    The conditions and informatives set out in the report and supplementary agenda, as amended below;

           Condition 18 – to include further clarification on the number of

                                     Electric Vehicle Charging points.

           Condition 23 – to include additional details regarding the size,

                                     species and maturity of trees in the Landscaping

                               Scheme.

(3)    Referral of the application for Stage 2 review by the Mayor of London.

PROPOSAL

Demolition of the showroom and multi -storey carpark building and erection of a ground plus up to 19 storey building to provide residential units (Use Class C3) with commercial use (Use Class E) at ground floors, together with associated parking at basement and landscaping.

RECOMMENDATION~:

That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission subject to:

(1)   Referral to the Mayor of London (stage II referral)

(2)   The prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations as detailed in points 1-14 in the Recommendations section of the report.

(3)   That the Head of Planning is delegated authority to negotiate the legal agreement indicated in the planning obligations.

(4)   That the Head of Planning is the delegated authority to issue the planning permission and impose conditions and informatives to secure the conditions and informatives as detailed in the report.

(5)   That the Head of Planning is delegated to make changes to the wording of the committee’s decision (such as to delete, vary or add conditions, informatives, planning obligations or reasons for the decision) prior to the decision being actioned, provided that the Head of Planning is satisfied that any such changes could not reasonably be regarded as deviating from the overall principle of the decision reached by the committee nor that such change(s) could reasonably have led to a different decision having been reached by the committee.

(6)    That, if by the “expiry date” of this application (subject to any amendments/extensions to the expiry date agreed by both parties) the legal agreement has not been completed, the Head of Planning is delegated authority to refuse planning permission.

(7)   That the Committee confirms that adequate provision has been made, by the imposition of conditions and obligations, for the preservation or planting of trees as required by Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

June Taylor, Principal Planning Officer, North Team, introduced the report and set out the key issues. In introducing the report members were advised that the application seeks the demolition and redevelopment of a car showroom and multi-storey car park to provide 1,262sqm of commercial floorspace (Class E), comprising of five separate units arranged across the ground and upper ground floors, fronting on to Edgware Road, Windover Avenue and the rear access road. The 165 residential units on the upper floors would be arranged in four cores around a first floor podium garden for communal residential use. The development would also include a basement parking area for 59 car parking spaces in addition to parking space for motorcycles.

In closing the introduction to the application the Planning Officer drew members’ attention to the supplementary report that included details of an amendment to the report as the applicant had increased the proportion of affordable housing provided by the scheme. As a result of the revised affordable housing offer the scheme would deliver 22.5% affordable housing. In addition to the supplementary report members were advised that page 21 of the report also included some  ...  view the full minutes text for item 4