Agenda item

Demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a basement plus eight storey hospital building with associated link bridge (Use Class D1), with flexible Class D1/A1/A3 floorspace at ground floor level, and associated works including access, servicing and patient drop-off facilities.(EIA Application accompanied by an Environmental Statement).

Additional representations were received from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (12.9.17) together with a revised recommendation to include an employment and training strategy as part of the Section 106 legal agreement.

Late representations were received from Councillor Heather Acton (24.9.17), Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (13.9.17 and 22.9.17) and Aecom (26.9.17).

The presenting officer tabled the following amendments:

Amended Draft Decision Letter

The draft decision letter has been amended to correct the drawing numbers (some drawings and documents were initially omitted in error), omit duplication between some of the conditions, improve the drafting of conditions, add a condition to secure amended entrance soffit detailing (as refered to in Section 8.2.4 of the Committee Agenda) and to add a condition to prevent doors opening over the highway. This replaces that set out on pages 54-70 of the Committee Agenda.

Amended Site Location Plan

It has come to the attention of officers that the site location plan on page 7 of the Committee Agenda is inaccurate and does not accurately reflect the true extent of the application site. Therefore the site location plan on page 7 of the Committee Agenda is replaced by the tabled amended site location plan.

Amended Summary of Representations from Adjoining Owners/ Occupiers and Other Representations

It has been brought to the attention of officers that the summary of the number of emails/ letters of support and objection at the start of the ‘Adjoining Owners/ Occupiers and Other Representations Received’ section on page 14 of the Committee Agenda is incorrect (the scheme has received a larger number of emails/ letters of support than stated in the Committee Agenda). The introductory text to this section of the report is therefore superseded by the text below in italics:

“ADJOINING OWNERS/ OCCUPIERS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIONS RECEIVED

No. Consulted: 667.

Total No. of Responses: 66.

No. of Objections: 48.

No. in Support: 18.”

RESOLVED:

1.         The committee considered that the clinical needs cited by St Mary’s Hospital, particularly their confirmation that a fit for purpose outpatients building needs to be of this size and scale and that this is the only site where they claim they can deliver the building within their campus, provides sufficient justification and public benefit to outweigh:

            a.         The significant loss of residents’ amenity, resultant from loss of daylight and sunlight, sense of enclosure, and noise and disturbance from the overall intensification of activities on the site.

            b.         The loss of on-site car parking (30 spaces) for hospital staff.

2.         Subject to 1 above conditional planning permission be granted subject to the views of the Mayor of London, and subject to:

A)        a S106 legal agreement to secure the following:-

(i)            Payment for the cost of highways works necessary to facilitate the development, including new footway, footway crossovers, revised parking bays.

(ii)          £162,000 (index linked and payable on commencement) towards carbon offset fund.

(iii)         £15,000 (index linked and payable on commencement) towards replacement of 3 street trees.

(iv)         Monitoring costs.

(v)          Employment and training strategy

B)           The amended draft decision letter as tabled and referred to above;

C)           An additional condition that the hospitals hours of operation shall be limited to 07.00 to 21.00 daily;

D)           An additional condition reserving the detailed design of the bridge link;

E)           An amendment to condition 38 to require details of how the delivery and servicing plan will maximise the consolidation of deliveries to minimise the impact of the development on the environment;

F)           An additional informative to encourage the maximisation sustainability through energy savings within the scheme.

The final draft decision letter to be forwarded to the chairman for comments.

3.         If within six weeks of the resolution to grant conditional permission the S106 planning obligation has not been completed or there is no immediate prospect of the planning obligation being completed, then

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

            b)         The Director of Planning shall consider whether permission should be refused on the grounds that it has not proved possible to complete a S106 planning obligation within an appropriate timescale, and that the proposal is unacceptable in the absence of the benefits which would have been secured; if so, the Director of Planning is authorised to determine the application and agree appropriate reasons for refusal under Delegated Powers.