Skip to main content

Agenda and minutes

Venue: Room 3.1, 3rd Floor, 5 Strand, London, WC2 5HR

Contact: Tristan Fieldsend: Senior 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     There were no changes to the membership.

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 Gotz Mohindra explained that a week before the meeting, all seven 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     Councillor Mohindra declared in respect of Item 1 that he had sat on the Sub-Committee that previously considered the main application.

 

2.3     Councillor Boothroyd declared that he is Head of Research and Psephology for Thorncliffe, whose clients are companies applying for planning permission from various local authorities. No current schemes are in Westminster; if there were he would be precluded from working on them under the company’s code of conduct.

 

2.4     Councillor Boothroyd also declared that on item 3, he was a member of the committee which decided the main application in 2015. Some Thorncliffe clients have engaged DP9 as planning consultants, who are also representing the applicant on item 3. However he does not deal directly with clients or other members of project teams, and planning consultants are not themselves clients.

 

2.5     Councillor Bush declared in respect of Item 1 that Councillor McKie had requested that the item was submitted to the Sub-Committee for determination and that he is one of her fellow Ward Councillors. 

 

2.6     Councillor Freeman declared in respect of Item 3 that he had sat on the Sub-Committee that previously considered the application.

3.

Minutes

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

Minutes:

3.1     RESOLVED: That the minutes of the meeting held on 11 September 2018 be signed by the Chairman as a correct record of proceedings

 

4.

Planning Applications

Applications for decision

1.

Parliament Square, London, SW1P 3JX pdf icon PDF 4 MB

Minutes:

A memorial to Emmeline Pankhurst in the form of a bronze statue on stone plinth set within the existing memorials on the west side of Parliament Square Gardens.

 

Councillor Louise Hyams addressed the Committee in her capacity as a Ward Councillor.

 

A late representation was received from The Emmeline Pankhurst Trust (2.10.18) which included a petition to the Prime Minister signed by 33 members of the House of Lords.

 

RESOLVED:  Refuse: Councillors Mohindra, Hitchcock, Freeman and Glen; Grant: Boothroyd, Bush and Gassanly

 

1.       In light of the previous committee resolution and the subsequent opposition to, and withdrawal of the separate application to remove/relocate the existing statue from Victoria Tower Gardens, Members considered that the proposal for a second memorial in the vicinity of the existing statue is unacceptable.

 

2.       That the application be refused on the grounds that it is contrary to the Council’s Saturation policy for the reasons set out on page 18 of the agenda and due to the presence of a second statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in the vicinity.

2.

Flat 13, Putney House, 92 - 94 Great Titchfield Street, London, W1W 6SF pdf icon PDF 1 MB

Minutes:

Demolition of the single storey residential dwelling in the rear courtyard and erection of a new two storey building for use as 1 x 3 bedroom residential dwelling (Class C3).

 

A late representation was received from Councillor Barnes (29.9.18).

 

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY: That permission be refused on design grounds and sense of enclosure.

3.

87 - 89 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 6PJ pdf icon PDF 881 KB

Minutes:

Details of construction management plan pursuant to Condition 43 of planning permission dated 10 November 2015 (RN: 14/11837).

 

An additional representation was received from Dukelease (24.9.2018).

 

Late representations were received from Dukelease (26.9.18) and DP9 (1.10.18).

 

The presenting officer advised the Sub-Committee that the correct address for the site is 87-125 Cleveland Street, W1T 6PJ.

 

RESOLVED:That details be approved.