Agenda item

Use of 5 Wimpole Street and 24 Wigmore Place as a single-family dwellinghouse. Excavation of a basement, demolition of existing roof and erection of replacement mansard roof extension, creation of rear windows and rear ground floor opening and installation of rear access stair to rear first floor of 24 Wigmore Place. Installation of air conditioning units in front pavement vault and at roof level of 5 Wimpole Street and in the mews house garage below the garden staircase, and other associated external and internal alterations to both buildings (Site includes 24 Wigmore Place).

An additional representation was received from a local resident (undated).

Late representations were received by a ward councillor in his capacity as a local resident with another local resident (09.05.2019), the Marylebone Association (09.05.2019) and the Arboricultural Officer (09.05.2019).

The presenting officer tabled the following additional conditions 15 and 16:

Additional Condition 15 (planning permission)

Pre-Commencement Condition

You must apply to us for our approval of details of an auditable system of arboricultural site supervision and record keeping prepared by an arboricultural consultant who is registered with the Arboricultural Association, or who has the level of qualifications and experience needed to be registered. The details of such supervision must include:

1. identification of individual responsibilities and key personnel.
2. induction and personnel awareness of arboricultural matters.
3. supervision schedule, indicating frequency and methods of site visiting and record keeping
4. procedures for dealing with variations and incidents.

You must not start any demolition, site clearance or building work, and you must not take any equipment, machinery or materials for the development onto the site, until we have approved what you have sent us.  You must then adhere to the approved supervision schedule.

You must produce written site supervision reports after each site monitoring visit, demonstrating that you have carried out the supervision and that the tree protection is being provided in accordance with the approved scheme. If any damage to trees, root protection areas or other breaches of tree protection measures occur then details of the incident and any mitigation/amelioration must be included. You must send copies of each written site supervision record to us within five days of the site visit.

Reason:

To make sure that the trees on the site are adequately protected during building works.  This is as set out in S38 of Westminster's City Plan (November 2016) and DES 1 (A), ENV 16 and ENV 17 of our Unitary Development Plan that we adopted in January 2007. 

Additional Condition 16 (planning permission)

You must apply to us for approval of detailed drawings of the following parts of the development - roof top plant. You must not start any work on these parts of the development until we have approved what you have sent us.

You must then carry out the work according to these approved detailed drawings. 

Reason:

To protect the special architectural or historic interest of this listed building and to make sure the development contributes to the character and appearance of the Harley Street Conservation Area. This is as set out in S25 and S28 of Westminster's City Plan (November 2016) and DES 1, DES 10 (A) and paras 10.108 to 10.146 of our Unitary Development Plan that we adopted in January 2007.  (R26FD)

Additional Condition 7 (listed building consent)

You must apply to us for approval of detailed drawings of the following parts of the development - roof top plant. You must not start any work on these parts of the development until we have approved what you have sent us.

You must then carry out the work according to these approved detailed drawings

Reason:

To protect the special architectural or historic interest of this building and to make sure the development contributes to the character and appearance of the Harley Street Conservation Area.  This is as set out in S25 and S28 of Westminster's City Plan (November 2016) and DES 1 and paras 10.108 to 10.146 of our Unitary Development Plan that we adopted in January 2007. 

RESOLVED (Councillors Tony Devenish, Susie Burbridge and Peter Freeman for, Councillor Tim Roca against):

1.              That conditional permission be granted, subject to additional conditions 15 and 16 as set out above.

2.        That conditional listed building consent be granted, subject to an additional condition 7 as set out above.

3.        That the reasons for granting listed building consent, as set out in Informative 1 of the draft decision letter, be agreed.