Agenda item

Demolition of the existing school building and erection of a new, two storey school building to accommodate the existing school and a new school, and a separate single storey building to provide term time accommodation. Associated works including landscaping, provision of playspace, provision of a refuse store, parking and alterations to existing site boundaries.

(Planning application number: P2015/0081/FUL)

In the discussion the following points were made:

·         The planning officer stated that the second sentence of Paragraph 10.74 should be amended to read, ‘Developments should achieve a total (regulated and unregulated) CO₂ emissions reduction of 30% relative to total emissions from a building which complies with Building Regulations 2010, where connection to a Decentralised Energy Network (DEN) is not possible, such as is the case with the application site’.

·         The planning officer stated that Condition 8 should be amended to state that the landscaping scheme should be completed prior to the date two months after first occupation of the proposed development, with the exception of the soft landscaping which should be completed/planted during the first planting season following practical completion of the development hereby approved. 

·         The planning officer stated that Condition 20 should be amended to require an air quality report to be submitted and agreed by the Local Planning Authority prior to any superstructure works commencing on site.

·         The planning officer reported that English Heritage had not commented on the proposal as they considered the impact of the proposal to be similar to that of the existing building.

·         The Design and Conservation Officer was of the opinion that any harm to the conservation area and the surrounding listed building would be less than substantial.

·         It was not possible to break the leases on the garages on the site.

·         The residential provision was for seven days a week during term time.

·         Concerns were raised about the potential number of vehicles accessing the site. The applicant confirmed that all pupils currently travelled to the temporary site on the same bus except for pupils from Hackney who travelled to the site by taxi. It was anticipated that the school would use a couple of seven seater vehicles to transport pupils. The weekend shift patterns of staff had not yet been decided but it was anticipated that staff would not drive to the school.

·         There would be two car parking spaces for core staff as the children had special requirements, the school was on multiple sites around the borough and children could be visited by health professionals.

·         The location of London Plane trees on the site meant the proposed building could not be located elsewhere on the site.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission be granted subject to the prior completion of a Directors’ Agreement Letter in order to secure the planning obligations in the case officer’s report to the satisfaction of the Head of Law and Public Services and the Service Director, Planning and Development/Head of Service – Development Management (or, in their absence, the Team Leader Major Applications) plus the conditions and informatives in the case officer’s report with the report and Conditions 8 and 20 amended as above.