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Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Tristan Fieldsend, Committee and Governance Officer  Tel: 020 7641 2341; email:  tfieldsend@westminster.gov.uk

Items
No. Item

1.

Membership

To note any changes to the membership.

Minutes:

1.1       It was noted that Councillors Iain Bott and Robert Rigby had replaced Councillors Gotz Mohindra and Paul Church.

2.

Declarations of Interest

To receive declarations by members and officers of the existence and nature of any personal or prejudicial interests in matters on this agenda.

Minutes:

2.1       Councillor Melvyn Caplan explained that a week before the meeting, all four Members of the Committee were provided with a full set of papers including a detailed officer’s report on each application; together with bundles of every single letter or e-mail received in respect of every application, including all letters and e-mails containing objections or giving support. Members of the Committee read through everything in detail prior to the meeting. Accordingly, if an issue or comment made by a correspondent was not specifically mentioned at this meeting in the officers’ presentation or by Members of the Committee, it did not mean that the issue had been ignored. Members will have read about the issue and comments made by correspondents in the papers read prior to the meeting.

 

2.2       The Committee noted that Item 7 on the agenda was an application which had been submitted by Councillor Jonathan Glanz. In line with guidance agreed by the City Council’s Standards Committee, members of the Majority Party sitting on tonight’s Committee were no longer required to apply for a dispensation from the Code of Conduct provided they could declare that they only knew Councillor Glanz through their membership of the Majority Party and saw him at Council and related events. Councillors Melvyn Caplan, Iain Bott and Robert Rigby gave that declaration in relation to Councillor Glanz.

 

2.3       Councillor Bott declared that in respect of item 6 the application was situated within his ward and he had spoken to residents regarding the application and therefore advised that he would withdraw from the meeting during this item.

 

2.4       Councillor Rigby declared that in respect of item 1 he was a Trustee of the London Marathon Charitable Trust who had recently awarded a grant to the application and therefore advised that he would withdraw from the meeting during this item.

3.

Minutes

To sign the minutes of the last meeting as a correct record of proceedings.

Minutes:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 21 March 2017 be signed by the Chairman as a correct record of proceedings.

4.

Planning Applications

Applications for decision

1.

The Pavilion Hyde Park, 1 Serpentine Road, London pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

Conversion of two mini tennis courts and one tennis court into one paddle tennis court and one multi use games area; extension of the tennis courts area to provide one additional tennis court adjacent to tennis Court 6; installation of 10m high floodlights; and renewal of the courts surface and fencing.

 

Councillor Rigby withdrew from the meeting in respect of this item.

 

A late representation was received from Environmental Health (07/04/17).

 

The presenting officer circulated the following additional condition:

 

Addition of Condition 7 worded as follows:

 

You must undertake the recommendations set out within the Ecological Appraisal dated October 2016 and follow the specifications set out in the Outdoor LED Lighting Design document dated 23 March 2017 for as long as the floodlights are in situ.

 

Reason:

To reduce the effect the development has on the biodiversity of the environment and on character and appearance of this part of the Hyde Park Conservation Area. This is as set out in S25, S28 and S38 of Westminster’s City Plan (November 2016) and ENV 17, DES 1 and DES 5 or DES 6 or both and paras 10.108 to 10.128 of our Unitary Development Plan that we adopted in January 2007.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission, as amended, be granted.

2.

Elliott House, 1 Molyneux Street, London, W1H 5HU pdf icon PDF 979 KB

Minutes:

The application was withdrawn from the meeting.

3.

Lion House, 2 Red Lion Yard, London, W1J 5JR pdf icon PDF 771 KB

Minutes:

Internal reconfiguration of the existing building to include the amalgamation of the existing two flats at first floor level to create a family sized dwelling (Class C3), and conversion of existing boiler room for use as a bin store for all of the flats and for the storage of 4 bicycles.

 

An additional representation was received from Meadows Ryan Solicitors (31/03/17).

 

Late representations were received from Savills (07/04/17), Councillor Glenys Roberts (11/04/17) and one local resident (11/04/17).

 

The presenting officer circulated the following revised recommendation:

 

Recommendation

 

Grant conditional permission subject to no new substantive issues being raised by the freehold owner of the building within a period of 21 days beginning on the date when the correct notice of the application is served upon the freehold owner of the building.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission be granted subject to no new substantive issues being raised by the freehold owner of the building within a period of 21 days beginning on the date when the correct notice of the application is served upon the freehold owner of the building.

 

Councillor Bush requested that her vote against the decision to grant the application be recorded.

4.

Pitch 1640, Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AU pdf icon PDF 761 KB

Minutes:

Erection of a permanent retail (Class A1) street trading kiosk on Pitch 1640.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That permission be refused on the grounds that the application would have a detrimental impact on the townscape, result in an unacceptable level of street clutter and cause harm to the setting of the adjacent Smith Square Conservation Area.

5.

3 Meade Mews, SW1P 4EG pdf icon PDF 848 KB

Minutes:

Use of the ground and first floor as a clinic (Class D1) including ancillary training and office facilities.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission be granted.

6.

Basement Flat, 13 Nottingham Place, London, W1U 5LE pdf icon PDF 716 KB

Minutes:

Alterations including excavation of a single storey basement to enlarge

existing lower ground floor flat (Class C3), with associated lightwells.

 

Councillor Bott withdrew from the meeting in respect of this item.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission be granted.

7.

Hyde Park Towers, 1 Porchester Terrace, London, W2 4DB pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

Erection of an additional floor at ninth floor level to create a penthouse flat (two bedroom unit).

 

An additional representation was received (undated).

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission be granted.

8.

50 Westbourne Terrace, London, W2 3UH pdf icon PDF 825 KB

Minutes:

 Installation of 10 bollards to the roadway in front of nos. 50, 52 and 54 Westbourne Terrace.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That conditional permission be granted.