Issue - meetings

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

PROPOSAL

Relocation of a hospital ward, incorporating the construction of a rooftop extension to the existing Accident and Emergency Department to create the new ward with staircase links and level access covered walkway to the hospital tower building and associated infrastructure (Use Class C2).

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 detailed in the Committee report.

(2)      That the Head of Planning is delegated authority to negotiate the legal agreement as detailed in the Committee report.

(3)      The Head of Planning being delegated authority to issue the planning permission and impose conditions an informatives as detailed in the report.

(4)      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.

Victoria McDonagh, Team Leader, North Area Planning Team, introduced the repot and set out the key issues. In introducing the report members were advised that the proposed application sought the construction of a rooftop extension to the existing Accident & Emergency Department to create a new 32-bed ward with staircase links and level access covered walkway to level 5 of the hospital tower building. The new ward would replace a 38-bed ward which had been lost in the Lister building (block K) as it had been considered unfit for purpose and removed from the hospital accommodation schedule.

The Chair thanked Victoria McDonagh for introducing the report and clarified that there had been no objections received in relation to the application, however due to the proposed scheme’s size, it had met the threshold to be considered at Planning Committee.

As there were no Committee questions raised and having established that all members had followed the discussions, the Chair asked members to vote on the recommendations.

DECISION:

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

(Voting on the decision was unanimous).