Issue - meetings
Application 1
Meeting: 16/11/2022 - Planning Committee (Item 4)
4 22/2225 - Fairgate House, 390-400 and 402-408 (Even), High Road Wembley, HA9 PDF 436 KB
Additional documents:
- 4.a 22.2225 Fairgate House SUPP, item 4 PDF 127 KB
- Webcast for 22/2225 - Fairgate House, 390-400 and 402-408 (Even), High Road Wembley, HA9
Decision:
Granted planning permission subject to referral to the Mayor of London (stage 2 referral) and the prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations, and conditions and informatives as detailed in the Committee report and supplementary report.
Minutes:
PROPOSAL
Demolition of existing buildings and construction of an up to part 13 and part 17 storeys (including ground level) building comprising purpose built student bed spaces (Use Class Sui Generis) together with ancillary communal facilities, flexible non-residential floor space (Use Class E), cycle parking, mechanical plant, landscaping together with other associated works.
RECOMMENDATION~:
That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission subject to:
(1) The application’s referral to the Mayor of London (stage 2 referral) and the prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations as detailed in the report.
(2) That the Head of Planning is delegated authority to negotiate the legal agreement as detailed in the report.
(3) That the Head of Planning is delegated authority to issue the planning permission and impose conditions and informatives as detailed in the report.
(4) 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.
(5) 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.
(6) That the Committee confirms that adequate provision has been made, by the imposition of conditions, for the preservation or planting of trees as required by Section 197 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
Victoria McDonagh, Team Leader, North Area Planning Team, introduced the report and set out the key issues. In introducing the report members were advised that the application site consisted of Fairgate House, a vacant seven-storey office building at 390-400 High Road, and Pitsman House, a vacant three-storey office building at 402-406 High Road. The site adjoined an area of hardstanding and mixed scrub to the north, and further to the north there was railway embankment land and the Chiltern Line railway tracks. The site was not in a conservation area and did not contain any listed buildings.
There had been a number of amended plans received during the course of the application as detailed in the report to secure minor changes to the ground floor landscaping proposals and first floor cycle storage. None of the amended plans received materially affected the nature of the scheme, therefore did not require a further period of consultation.
The proposed application sought to redevelop the site as a single building, partly 13-storey, 16 storey and 17-storey, to provide purpose built student accommodation with commercial floorspace (Use Class E) comprising three commercial units totalling 232sqm at ground level. A total of 349 ... view the full minutes text for item 4