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Items
No. Item

267.

Introductions

Minutes:

Councillor Khan welcomed everyone to the meeting. Members of the Committee and officers introduced themselves and the Chair outlined the procedure for the meeting.

268.

Apologies for Absence

Minutes:

Apologies were received from Councillors Nicholls and Picknell.

269.

Declarations of Substitute Members

Minutes:

There were no declarations of substitute members.

270.

Declarations of Interest

If you have a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest* in an item of business:

§  if it is not yet on the council’s register, you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent;

§  you may choose to declare a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest that is already in the register in the interests of openness and transparency. 

In both the above cases, you must leave the room without participating in discussion of the item.

 

If you have a personal interest in an item of business and you intend to speak or vote on the item you must declare both the existence and details of it at the start of the meeting or when it becomes apparent but you may participate in the discussion and vote on the item.

 

*(a)     Employment, etc - Any employment, office, trade, profession or vocation carried on for profit or gain.

(b) Sponsorship - Any payment or other financial benefit in respect of your expenses in carrying out duties as a member, or of your election; including from a trade union.

(c) Contracts - Any current contract for goods, services or works, between you or your partner (or a body in which one of you has a beneficial interest) and the council.

(d) Land - Any beneficial interest in land which is within the council’s area.

(e) Licences- Any licence to occupy land in the council’s area for a month or longer.

(f) Corporate tenancies - Any tenancy between the council and a body in which you or your partner have a beneficial interest.

 (g) Securities - Any beneficial interest in securities of a body which has a place of business or land in the council’s area, if the total nominal value of the securities exceeds £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issued share capital of that body or of any one class of its issued share capital. 

 

This applies to all members present at the meeting.

 

Minutes:

There were no declarations of interest.

271.

Order of Business

Minutes:

The order of business would be as the agenda.

272.

Minutes of Previous Meeting pdf icon PDF 131 KB

Minutes:

RESOLVED:

 

That the minutes of the meeting held on 17 January 2017 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

273.

Land at Turk's Head Yard, 75a Turnmill Street, EC1M 5SY pdf icon PDF 677 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Erection of new three storey office (plus basement) building providing 1,083sqm B1(a) floorspace, with associated landscaping, servicing and parking.

 

(Planning application number: P2016/4298/FUL)

 

In the discussion the following points were made:

 

·         The legal officer advised that boundary and private rights of access concerns raised by an objector were not relevant to the determination of the planning application. It was advised that concerns relating to the structural integrity of adjacent buildings could be a material consideration; however the existence of other regimes such as building control and the Party Wall Act was also relevant and the Committee were entitled to assume that these regimes would be properly applied.

·         The Committee noted that the council’s policy favoured car-free development and did not consider that a B1(a) use at this location represented a strong case for car parking. It was commented that dissolution of the car parking spaces would bring amenity to the area.

·         The Committee commented that an affordable workspace provision of 54sqm would be an appropriate size for a small enterprise. Whilst the Committee considered an off-site affordable workspace contribution to be acceptable, it was proposed that this should be spent within the same ward as the application site (Clerkenwell Ward).

 

Councillor Convery proposed a motion to amend Condition 8 to remove the use of car parking on the site. This was seconded by Councillor Donovan and carried.

 

Councillor Klute proposed a motion to amend Condition 3 to require solid brickwork. This was seconded by Councillor Convery and carried.

 

Councillor Donovan proposed a motion that the affordable workspace contribution set out in the proposed Planning Obligation specify that the contribution be spent in the Clerkenwell Ward. This was seconded by Councillor Convery and carried.

 

RESOLVED:

 

That planning permission be granted subject to the conditions and informatives set out in Appendix 1 of the officer report and conditions 3 and 8 as amended above; and subject to the prior completion of a Deed of Planning Obligation made under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 securing the heads of terms as set out in Appendix 1 of the officer report and as amended above.