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Development comprising of construction of three industrial buildings accommodating a total of 13,251 sqm (142,629 sqft) of gross B1/B2/B8 employment floorspace and divided into six employment units, together with revised access and associated highway works, parking and sustainable urban drainage.

RECOMMENDATION: Grant permission, subject to conditions, subject to sec.106 Legal Agreement.

The Committee considered the planning application report, previously circulated, which set out the details of the proposal, planning history, consultation and responses and analysis and assessment of the relevant planning issues. The Planning Officer gave a presentation on the key aspects of the application, and advised that there had been changes to the Section 106 from the details set out in the report - contributions would be; £70k for works related to the creation of the ghost island right turn facility and relocation of the vehicle access and bus stop, as well as a scheme to improve street lighting and footway resurfacing within the vicinity of the site and the planting of replacement street trees within the vicinity of the site; £60k to support local employment opportunities as part of the Haringey Guarantee scheme; £32,200 for Community benefits; and £3k monitoring.

The Committee examined the plans for the application, and asked questions of officers. In response to a question regarding the impact of Heavy Goods Vehicles using the site, it was reported that the application would result in a reduction of HGV traffic compared with existing planned use. It was confirmed that the condition requested by the Environment Agency in response to the consultation had been added.

The Chair moved the recommendations of the report, with the amended section 106 agreement as presented, and it was:

RESOLVED

1) That planning permission be granted in accordance with planning application no. HGY/2011/0814, subject to a pre-condition that the owners of the application site shall first have entered into an Agreement or Agreements with the Council under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (As Amended) and Section 16 of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1974 in order to secure:

(1.1)        The applicant to enter into a Section 278 Agreement securing a £70,000 (seventy thousand pound) contribution for works related to the creation of the ghost island right turn facility and relocation of the vehicle access and bus stop, in addition to a scheme to improve street lighting and footway resurfacing within the vicinity of the site;

(1.2)        A financial contribution of £60,000 be provided by way of S106 Agreement to support local employment opportunities either as part of the Haringey Guarantee project, or by other appropriate means agreed with the Council;

(1.3)        A financial contribution of £32,200 for Community benefits.

(1.4)        The developer to pay an administration / monitoring cost of £3,000 in connection with this Section 106 agreement.

2) That in the absence of the Agreement referred to in the resolution above being completed by the 31^st January 2012, planning application reference number HGY/2011/0814 be refused for the following reason:

In the absence of a formal undertaking to secure a Section 106 Agreement for appropriate contribution for highway and access improvements to this site the proposal is contrary to Policy UD8 ‘Planning Obligations’ of the adopted Haringey Unitary Development (2006) and Supplementary Planning Guidance SPG10a ‘The Negotiation, Management and Monitoring of Planning Obligations’.

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