Agenda and minutes

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

Apologies were received from Councillor Picknell.

There were no declarations of substitute members.

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The order of business would be B3, B2 and B1.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 7 June 2018 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

Partial demolition of existing 4-storey B1(a) office building, and construction of a new part 5, part 6-storey 3,592sqm B1(a) office building.

(Planning application number: P2018/1410/FUL)

In the discussion the following points were made:

·         The Chair advised the committee that a previous application had been granted. This meant the committee should only consider differences between this application and the previous one.

·         The planning officer advised that the application sought to increase the floorspace by building on the open service yard. There would still be two SME units at ground floor level.

·         In response to members’ questions about refuse arrangements and other schemes approved for the area, the planning officer advised that the senior highways officer had assessed this and had confident in the refuse collection arrangements and the implications of the scheme in relation to other schemes in the vicinity.

·         The planning officer advised that the energy officer was now satisfied with the application.

·         The planning officer stated that with the uplift in workspace, the affordable housing contribution had been increased from £84,000 to £329,920.

·         In response to a question from a member, the planning officer stated that the SME units would be at 100% market rent.

·         The applicant confirmed that the uplift in floorspace was 30% with the SME floorspace increasing to 5% of the new total floorspace. The planning officer indicated that the Heads of Terms would reflect this figure.

·         In response to a request from a member to include affordable workspace, the applicant advised that this would not be possible from a commercial perspective and confirmed that this was not required by policy.

·         Glazing and light pollution were discussed and it was considered that the condition in the report would secure mitigation measures were in place.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission be granted subject to the conditions and informatives set out in Appendix 1 of the officer report 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.

Demolition of all existing buildings and erection of part 1, part-2 and part 5 plus basement buildings to provide 3,330sqm of commercial (B1) floorspace and 670sqm of residential (C3) floorspace over 8 units. Associated refuse and cycle storage.

(Planning application number: P2018/0429/FUL)

In the discussion the following points were made:

·         The planning officer reported that the first sentence of Paragraph 6.5 of the officer report should read, “The proposed development will provide 8 residential units within a block fronting Wakley Street, which represents a reduction of 18 units from the previously approved scheme”.

·         The chair questioned whether the building would be higher than that in the previous scheme and was advised by the applicant that if it was, it was only a marginal increase.

·         In response to questions about the carbon offsetting, the planning officer stated that the carbon reduction indicated in the report was based on the energy efficiency of the building and renewable energy proposals.

·         A member raised concern that the affordable workspace would be let at 75% of market value which was still a significant amount. The applicant stated that the offer of 10% of the uplift in commercial floorspace as affordable workspace was in excess of policy requirements and in addition they were providing a small sites contribution and CIL contribution. The member asked the applicant to improve their affordable workspace offer and the applicant agreed to increase the offer to 50% market value for 7.5 years. The affordable workspace floorspace would remain at 10% of the uplift in commercial floorspace.

·         Concern was raised about the impact the height of the building could have on the neighbouring building at No. 9. Wakley Street.

·         A member requested that the reference to the living wage in the Section 106 agreement be changed to refer to the current living wage.

Councillor Klute proposed a motion to condition that the Wakley Street building should be no higher than that in the previous scheme and that there should be no plant on top of the building. This was seconded by Councillor Chapman and carried.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission be granted subject to the conditions and informatives set out in Appendix 1 of the officer report plus the additional condition outlined 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 with the reference to the London Living Wage being amended to refer to the current London Living Wage and the reference to affordable workspace being amended to require the applicant to provide the space at 50% market rate for 7.5 years.

Demolition of buildings and redevelopment of the land to provide 16 dwellings and 2215sqm of commercial floorspace together with landscaping, service yards, cycle storage, bin storage and associated works across two sites. The north site (500-502 Hornsey Road) would provide 490sqm of B1 (business) floorspace at ground floor and 16 dwellings above (2x1 beds, 11x2 beds and 3x3 beds, Use Class C3) within a 3-4 storey building. The south site (Grenville Works, 2a Grenville Road) would provide 1725sqm of B1 floorspace within a 4-storey building.

(Planning application number: P2017/3242/FUL)

In the discussion the following points were made:

·         The planning officer reported that:

-       The applicant should be JPA and not Dominus

-       The first line of condition 14 in Appendix 1 of the officer report should state “At least 1725sqm (GIA) of B1(c) floorspace shall be provided.”

-       Under paragraph 6.3 of the officer report, the policy team had now provided their  response to the consultation and they had no comments.

-       Paragraph 7.28 of the officer report should be amended to state that it was only the building to the north that had been reduced by one storey.

-       Paragraph 161 of the officer report incorrectly stated that there were 7 objections. There had been 11 objections from 10 addresses but some had not been logged when there was a change of officer. Four objectors had had notifications sent on 4 July 2018 instead of 27 June 2018. Some of their points had been covered in the officer report in paragraph 6.2 as they were made by other objectors or had not been made by others but had been included in the officer report in the assessment. The officer addressed the remaining points in the presentation. These included – overbearing/oppressive impact; overshadowing; lack of contextual information; noise from users; cumulative impacts with other developments; light pollution and lack of consultation by the developer.

-       Additional information had been submitted by the applicant covering daylight/sunlight impacts on the adjacent garden and clarifying why additional tests had not been carried out on windows.

-       The officer advised that the following conditions should be added to the list of those in the officer report:

o   DELIVERY AND SERVICING PLAN

CONDITION: The development shall be carried out strictly in accordance with the DeliveryandServicingplan hereby approved.

  REASON:Toensure thattheproposeddevelopmentdoesnothave

  anadverse impactonneighbouringresidential amenity.

o   DELIVERIES, COLLECTION AND LOADING

  CONDITION: Deliveries,collections,unload  ...  view the full minutes text for item 17.

Grenville Works 2A inc. 1 Grenville Road and 500-502 Hornsey Road, London, N19

Reasons for refusal: