Agenda item

Use of part ground and upper floors as a 134-room hotel (Class C1); use of part lower ground as a leisure suite (Class D2); use of ground floor as restaurant/bar (Class A3/A4), external alterations, including demolition to include the removal of the rooftop plant enclosures and replacement with a single-storey extension, remodelling of the Little Sanctuary elevation and introduction of balconies and lightwells.

An additional representation was received from Public Protection and Licensing Environmental Sciences (18.10.2019).

Late representations were received from the occupier of 16 Dartmouth Street  (27.10.2019) and a brochure of the proposed development from the Applicant (undated).

The presenting officer tabled the following amended and additional conditions to the draft decision letter:

Condition 7

You must apply to us for approval of plans, sections and elevations (scale 1:20) of the following parts of the development - disabled lift to Great George Street entrance. You must not start any work on these parts of the development until we have approved what you have sent us.

You must not occupy the hotel, restaurant, bar or leisure suite until you have carried out these works and installed the disabled access lift in accordance with the approved details.

Condition 10

You must apply to us for approval of materials including sample(s) of the following parts of the development – roof. 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 details and sample(s).

Condition 12

You must not allow more than 134 customers into the Class A3 restaurant at any one time.

Condition 21

You must submit a detailed servicing and deliveries management plan for approval by the City Council no later than three months before occupation of the hotel, restaurant and leisure suite. The plan must include details of delivery vehicles, number of deliveries, how deliveries will be managed and refuse collection processes. The hotel, restaurant and leisure suite uses must then operate in accordance with the approved servicing and deliveries management plan for the lifetime of the development.

Condition 29

The bar and bar seating at ground floor level must not take up more than 15% of the floor area of the proposed restaurant as shown on drawing number P130-3.

Condition 31

You must submit a detailed Operational Management Plan for the approval of the City Council no later than three months before occupation of the hotel that provides details and further information on how you shall manage potential noise and disturbance from the restaurant, bar leisure suite and hotel guests (including from taxis, guests congregating and smoking locations for guests etc).

Additional condition

Condition 32

You must not use any part of the development until we have approved appropriate arrangements to secure the following:

Air quality neutral mitigation

In the case of the above, you must include in the arrangements details of when you will provide the mitigation and how you will guarantee this timing.  You must only carry out the development according to the approved arrangements. 

Laurence Brooker, Turleys, agents representing the applicants, addressed the Sub-Committee in support of the application.

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

That conditional permission be granted subject to the amended and additional conditions as tabled and set out above.