Issue - meetings

To report the outcome of the public consultation exercise.

Mr Mark Lucas, Strategic Site and Projects Group, presented the report and advised that the Committee had approved The Draft Tottenham Hale Urban Centre Masterplan for formal public consultation at its meeting on 26 June 2006. 

The Masterplan and accompanying Sustainability Appraisal was the subject of a statutory consultation which commenced on 3 July and concluded on 28 August 2006.  The consultation attracted 330 responses from 30 respondents. The comments had been considered, taken into account and the incorporated changes set out in the final amended version of the Plan.

The Committee was invited to note the changes before being presented as a recommendation from the PASC to the Executive on 31 October 2006, for their adoption of the Masterplan as a Supplementary Planning Document.

Members raised concern regarding the Transport for London (TfL) response to the Masterplan which looked for a Section 106 framework to pool contributions for major transport infrastructure to support the Masterplan.  The Committee was advised that money raised through contributions from development within the masterplan boundaries would be reinvested within the Masterplan area and that this principal was firmly established, but that in the case, e.g. of making contributions towards the cost of major transport and infrastructure projects such as the Tottenham Gyratory, developments outside, but in the vicinity of the Masterplan area might be expected to contribute.

Members also queried the mix of affordable housing which would have an effect on school places demand. Officers responded by advising that existing policy guidance was in place to collect Section106 contributions from developers to mitigate the educational impact.   Members expressed concern about how mixed use development would work in practice and were advised that all applications in the Masterplan area would have to comply with UDP policies and national building regulations. There was also a supporting document to the Plan, The Tottenham Hale Urban Design Framework which detailed good urban design principles.  The Masterplan made it clear that there could be no growth without investment in supporting infrastructure.

The Committee noted that Tottenham Hale Station would be changed dramatically and questioned how this was to be implemented.  They were informed that TfL’s interchange team had appointed Colin Buchannon Associates, a firm of engineers to undertake a feasibility study to scope the necessary changes prior to commissioning actual design work.

RESOLVED

That the recommendations as detailed in the report were agreed.

(Cllr Stanton requested that his abstention be recorded)