Issue - meetings

Granted planning permission subject to the prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations as laid out in the Committee report and the conditions and informatives as laid out in the Committee report.

PROPOSAL

Demolition of existing building and construction of a two-storey block of flats to provide 4 residential units (Use Class C3), with associated landscaping and boundary treatments, refuse and cycle storage.

RECOMMENDATION~:

That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission subject to:

(1)  The prior completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations as laid out in the Committee report.

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

(3)  That the Head of Planning is delegated authority 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.

(4)  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.

(5)   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, Planning Officer, North Area Planning Team, introduced the report and set out the key issues. In introducing the report members were advised that the application proposed the demolition of the existing 3-bedroom detached dwellinghouse, with attached garage on its western side and proposes the erection of a two-storey block of flats to provide 4 residential units, with associated landscaping and boundary treatments, refuse and cycle storage. The existing house was located on the south side of District Road in Sudbury Town in a predominantly residential area, the building was not listed and was not within a Conservation Area. The site fell in the Sudbury Town Neighbourhood Forum boundaries and the railway line to the south of the site was a designated wildlife corridor.

The Committee’s attention was drawn to the supplementary agenda that provided information regarding the applicant’s submission of their calculated Urban Greening Factor (UGF) that set out that the proposed scheme achieved a factor 0.4199 and as such exceeded the 0.4 requirement set out within Policy BH4 of Brent’s Local Plan, however as there had been no UGF Masterplan submitted to show the location of the various landscape aspects, it was recommended that further details of the UGF were secured by condition (*as set out within condition 13) to maximise the UGF for the site in line with policy BH4 of Brent's Local Plan 2019-2041.

As no Committee questions were raised at this point, the Chair invited Mr Lakhan Patel (objector) to address the Committee (online)  ...  view the full minutes text for item 5