Issue - meetings

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

PROPOSAL

The proposal involves the conversion of the existing dwellinghouse into five self-contained flats.  The development would involve external alterations which include the erection of a rear dormer window and 1.no side rooflight, replacement front windows, and the relocation of the front entrance door along the principal elevation of the building.  The rear garden area would also be subdivided, and the proposal will include the provision of off-road parking, cycle and waste storage and associated hard and soft landscaping.

RECOMMENDATION

(1)        That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission subject to:

(a)        The completion of a legal agreement to secure the planning obligations detailed within the report.

(b)        the conditions and informatives as set out in the Committee report and supplementary report.

(1)          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.

(2)            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.

Curtis Thompson (Planning Officer) introduced the report which the Committee was advised involved the conversion of the existing dwellinghouse into 5 x self-contained flats. The development would involve external alterations which included the erection of a rear dormer window and 1 side rooflight, replacement front windows, and the relocation of the front entrance door along the principal elevation of the building. The rear garden area would also be subdivided, and the proposal will include the provision of off-road parking, cycle and waste storage and associated hard and soft landscaping.  Members attention was also drawn to the supplementary report which included reference to an updated plan and a resulting amendment to Condition 2 with the recommendation remaining to grant consent subject to the completion of the necessary s106 agreement and conditions.

The Chair thanked Curtis Thompson for introducing the report, and then invited Lalji Vekaria, speaking in support of the application as the architect, to address the Committee.  The following key points were highlighted:

·             The Committee were advised that the application had been submitted by a long standing charity operating in Brent the Shri Swaminarayan Temple based in Neasden who, whilst recognising the s106 planning contribution as as policy requirement, also felt that discretion should be available as to how this requirement was applied in relation to charitable organisations.

·             This was a revised application following the refusal of a previous application and dismissed appeal.  The current proposal addressed the issue of the ceiling height in one of the proposed flats which  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6