Agenda and minutes

Councillor Khan welcomed everyone to the meeting. Members of the Committee and officers introduced themselves.

Apologies were received from Councillor Picknell.

There were no declarations of substitute members.

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.

There were no declarations of interest.

The order of business would be as per the agenda.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on 4 September 2014 be confirmed as an accurate record of proceedings and the Chair be authorised to sign them.

Comprehensive redevelopment of the site to provide for a mixed use development consisting of 3,879sqm (GIA) of a Car Hire Facility (sui generis use class) comprising offices and 150 parking spaces and 873sqm (GIA) of office (B1 use class) floor space and 118 residential units (C3 use class), along with associated communal amenity space, children’s play space, landscaping, cycle spaces, refuse storage. The building would consist of the following storey heights:- Rodney Street: part 5 and part 7 storeys; - corner of Rodney and Pentonville Road: 10 storeys; - Pentonville Road: part 5, part 6 and part 7 storeys with set back floors at 8^th and 6^th floor levels; and Cynthia Street: 4 storeys with a set back 5^th.

(Planning application number: P2014/1017/FUL)

Councillor Khan proposed a motion to defer the consideration of the application.  The planning department had not issued meeting notification letters and interested parties were therefore not present, so the application could not be determined. This motion was seconded by Councillor Poyser and carried.

RESOLVED:

That consideration of the application be deferred for the reason set out above.

RESOLVED:

To note that the consideration of the application had been deferred.