Issue - meetings

1.1      Demolition of existing building, excavation to provide an additional

           basement level and redevelopment to replacement building over sub-     basement, basement, ground and six upper floors as use as offices

           (Class B1) over part ground and first to sixth floor levels, retail (Class

           A1) at basement and part ground floor levels and shared ancillary

           facilities at sub-basement level.

1.2      Blythe Dunk addressed the Sub-Committee in support of the application.

1.3      RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

1.              That conditional permission be granted subject to a legal agreement to                secure the following:

a)              A contribution to the City Council's Affordable Housing Fund of              £687,000 (index linked), payable prior to commencement of                             development.

b)              A Carbon Offset Contribution of £76,000 (index linked), payable                             prior to commencement of development.

c)               The costs of monitoring the S106 legal agreement.

2.        If the S106 legal agreement has not been completed within six weeks                 of the date of this resolution then:

a)              The Director of Place Shaping and Planning shall consider whether it will be possible or appropriate to issue the permission with additional conditions attached to secure the benefits listed above. If so, the Director of Place Shaping and Planning is authorised to determine and issue the decision under Delegated Powers; however, if not;

b)               The Director of Place Shaping and Planning shall consider whether the permission should be refused on the grounds that it has not proved possible to complete an agreement within an appropriate timescale, and that the proposals are unacceptable in the absence of the benefits that would have been secured; if so the Director of Place Shaping and Planning is authorised to determine the application and agree appropriate reasons for refusal under Delegated Powers.