Agenda item

Variation of Conditions 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 17 and 30 of planning permission dated 19 November 2020 (Ref: 19/06451/COFUL) for: 'Redevelopment of existing play space to provide a new building comprising a flexible Class D1 (non-residential institutions) use at ground floor level, 14 x affordable house units (7 x 1-bed and 7 x 2-bed) on first to fifth floors with associated terraces/balconies (Class C3); associated access and other works including a subterranean rainwater harvesting tank; new plant, cycle parking, refuse storage and landscaping. Removal of existing boundary railings and brick wall base adjoining Paddington Street Gardens North and construction of new boundary wall. (Council’s Own Development)'; NAMELY, to allow the installation of 1.1m guard railings to all flat roofs; repairs to existing dwarf wall with metal railing and inclusion of a screen; introduction of metal artwork panels (public art) on the rear boundary wall; relocation of emergency exit from Paddington Street Gardens boundary wall to Luxborough Tower gardens wall; replacement of gas boilers with 16x ASHPs at main roof level; installation of privacy screens to rear balconies at 3rd 4th and 5th floor levels; reconfiguration of residential entrance door including a glazed panel to enable further daylight into the communal entrance hallway; relocation of ground floor vents; relocation of the community space kitchen extract duct at top roof level; reduction in height of the lift overrun and increase in height of smoke vent by 500mm; and tenure -social rent introduced. (Application under Section 73 of the Act).

Annie Taylor addressed the Sub-Committee in support of the application.

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

1.     That conditional planning permission, under Regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning General Regulations 1992, be granted subject to a S106 legal agreement to secure the following:

a.     the provision of 7 intermediate affordable housing units and 7 social rented housing units.

b.    The provision of Lifetime car membership (minimum 25 years) in association with each of the proposed prior to first occupation.

c.     A carbon offset contribution of £10,152 to address the shortfall in carbon savings.

d.    Cost associated with the replacement of two street trees outside the site on Luxborough Street (5,000 per tree).

e.     Highway works.

f.      S106 monitoring costs.

2.     That if the S106 legal agreement has not been completed within 3 MONTHS from the date of the Committee's resolution then:

a.     The Director of Town Planning & Building Control shall consider whether the permission can be issued with additional conditions attached to secure the benefits listed above. If this is possible and appropriate, the Director of Town Planning & Building Control is authorised to determine and issue such a decision under Delegated Powers; however, if not,

The Director of Town Planning & Building Control shall consider whether 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 Town Planning & Building Control is authorised to determine the application and agree appropriate reasons for refusal under Delegated Powers.

3. That condition 37 be amended to require submission of a post-commissioning acoustic report when the air source heat pumps are operational, and then again two years after that date.