Agenda and minutes

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Contact: Felicity Foley, Committees Manager 

Items
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517.

FILMING AT MEETINGS

Please note this meeting may be filmed or recorded by the Council for live or subsequent broadcast via the Council’s internet site or by anyone attending the meeting using any communication method.  Although we ask members of the public recording, filming or reporting on the meeting not to include the public seating areas, members of the public attending the meeting should be aware that we cannot guarantee that they will not be filmed or recorded by others attending the meeting.  Members of the public participating in the meeting (e.g. making deputations, asking questions, making oral protests) should be aware that they are likely to be filmed, recorded or reported on.  By entering the meeting room and using the public seating area, you are consenting to being filmed and to the possible use of those images and sound recordings.

 

The Chair of the meeting has the discretion to terminate or suspend filming or recording, if in his or her opinion continuation of the filming, recording or reporting would disrupt or prejudice the proceedings, infringe the rights of any individual, or may lead to the breach of a legal obligation by the Council.

Minutes:

The Chair advised that the meeting would be live streamed on the Council’s website.

518.

PLANNING PROTOCOL

The Planning Committee abides by the Council’s Planning Protocol 2017.  A factsheet covering some of the key points within the protocol as well as some of the context for Haringey’s planning process is provided alongside the agenda pack available to the public at each meeting as well as on the Haringey Planning Committee webpage.

 

The planning system manages the use and development of land and buildings.  The overall aim of the system is to ensure a balance between enabling development to take place and conserving and protecting the environment and local amenities.  Planning can also help tackle climate change and overall seeks to create better public places for people to live, work and play.  It is important that the public understand that the committee makes planning decisions in this context.  These decisions are rarely simple and often involve balancing competing priorities.  Councillors and officers have a duty to ensure that the public are consulted, involved and where possible, understand the decisions being made.

 

Neither the number of objectors or supporters nor the extent of their opposition or support are of themselves material planning considerations.

 

The Planning Committee is held as a meeting in public and not a public meeting.  The right to speak from the floor is agreed beforehand in consultation with officers and the Chair.  Any interruptions from the public may mean that the Chamber needs to be cleared.

Minutes:

Noted.

519.

APOLOGIES

Minutes:

Apologies for absence had been received from Councillors Adamou and Hinchcliffe.

 

Councillor Morris was in attendance as substitute for Councillor Hinchcliffe.

520.

URGENT BUSINESS

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business. Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear. New items will be dealt with at item 15 below.

Minutes:

None.

521.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

A member with a disclosable pecuniary interest or a prejudicial interest in a matter who attends a meeting of the authority at which the matter is considered:

 

(i) must disclose the interest at the start of the meeting or when the interest becomes apparent, and

(ii) may not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter and must withdraw from the meeting room.

 

A member who discloses at a meeting a disclosable pecuniary interest which is not registered in the Register of Members’ Interests or the subject of a pending notification must notify the Monitoring Officer of the interest within 28 days of the disclosure.

 

Disclosable pecuniary interests, personal interests and prejudicial interests are defined at Paragraphs 5-7 and Appendix A of the Members’ Code of Conduct

Minutes:

Councillors Bevan and Peacock advised that they attended regular meetings with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in relation to the operation of the stadium, although this would not be considered as a pecuniary or prejudicial interest.

 

Councillor Say advised that she had been in attendance at a meeting of the Bounds Green Residents Association where the application at Bidwell Gardens had been discussed, but she had not commented on the application herself.

522.

MINUTES pdf icon PDF 229 KB

To confirm and sign the minutes of the Planning Sub Committee held on 8 March 2021 (to follow)

Minutes:

RESOLVED that the minutes of the Planning Committee held on 8 March 2021 be approved, subject to the following amendment:

-       Minute 512, second from last paragraph to be amended to read: “Councillor Rice requested that an informative be included to state that work should commence on site no later than six months after permission was granted…”

523.

HGY/2020/1615 26-28 Brownlow Road N11 2DE pdf icon PDF 369 KB

Proposal: Demolition of existing buildings; erection of a part 3 and part 4 storey building comprising 23 (1 x studio, 6 x 1 bed, 14 x 2 bed, 3 x 3 bed) flats; erection of 1 detached dwelling to the rear with 1 parking spaces, provision of 3 disabled parking spaces at the front; cycle, refuse and recycling storage; provision of new access onto Brownlow Road and accessway to the rear.

 

Recommendation: GRANT

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for the demolition of existing buildings; erection of a part 3 and part 4 storey building comprising 23 (1 x studio, 6 x 1 bed, 14 x 2 bed, 3 x 3 bed) flats; erection of 1 detached dwelling to the rear with 1 parking spaces, provision of 3 disabled parking spaces at the front; cycle, refuse and recycling storage; provision of new access onto Brownlow Road and accessway to the rear.

 

Officers responded to questions from the Committee:

-           There were 24 units in the development – 23 flats and one house.

-           The affordable housing contribution would provide two large homes in a Council build scheme – Council homes for Council rent.

-           Permitted development rights would apply to the house only.

-           There was a one communal bin store for all properties.  A waste management plan would be developed to set out how waste would be dealt with.

-           The rear communal garden would be accessed by an existing accessway to the south of the building, and could also be accessed on the northern side.

-           There were 7 single aspect units, but these were not either north or south facing and so were considered to be acceptable to the scheme.

-           The scheme had been amended since previous applications and officers were satisfied that previous objections had been satisfied.

 

Rob Steward spoke in objection to the application.  He considered that the scheme barely met minimum space standards and would cause privacy issues for neighbouring properties.  The proposal did not harmonise with existing buildings in Bounds Green.  The land had been neglected for several years and a better use would be to create an in-fill garden.

 

Adele Lorente spoke in objection to the application.  She objected on the grounds of knocking down an old house.  The new development would not add architectural value to the area.  The new development would add more dwellings to the area, but did not provide for any extra services.

 

Simon Wallis, Applicant Team, addressed the Committee.  The new submitted scheme was considered to be more sensitive design and the applicant had worked with officers on detail and design matters.  A sunlight and daylight assessment had been carried out and there was no unacceptable loss of light on the scheme.  The scheme would be subject to early and late stage reviews by the Building Control.

 

The Applicant Team and Officers responded to questions from the Committee:

-           All apartments had been designed to be open plan with kitchen and living areas as open spaces.

-           Condition 5 could be tweaked to prohibit the installation satellite dishes on the flats only.

 

The Chair moved to the vote to grant the application with the amendment to condition 5 to reflect that satellite dishes shall be prohibited on the flats only.  Following a vote it was unanimously

 

RESOLVED

 

i.        That planning permission be GRANTED and that the Head of Development Management or the Assistant Director Planning, Building Standards & Sustainability  ...  view the full minutes text for item 523.

524.

HGY/2021/0441 807 High Road, N17 8ER pdf icon PDF 604 KB

Proposal - Full planning application for the demolition of the existing buildings and the erection of a replacement building up to four storeys to include residential (C3), retail (Class E, a) and flexible medical/health (Class E, e) and office (Class E, g, i) uses; hard and soft landscaping works including a residential podium; and associated works

 

Recommendation: GRANT

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for full planning application for the demolition of the existing buildings and the erection of a replacement building up to four storeys to include residential (C3), retail (Class E, a) and flexible medical/health (Class E, e) and office (Class E, g, i) uses; hard and soft landscaping works including a residential podium; and associated works

 

Officers and the Applicant Team responded to questions from the Committee:

-           Percival Court was in different ownerships and the applicant would need to work with all owners to ensure that resurfacing of the front of the court could be carried out.  The addendum included an additional Heads of Terms which set out that the applicant shall “implement approved surface improvements to the section of Percival Court in its ownership and use reasonable endeavours to work with adjoining landowners to secure a scheme of surface improvements to land outside the applicant’s ownership prior to first occupation.” 

-           The Co-op Funeral Services were still potential tenants for the commercial unit and the scheme had been designed with them in mind.

-           There would be a centrally placed bin store with 11 wheelie bins (domestic size).  On collection day these would be moved out to an agreed on-street collection point.  A residential waste management plan would be devised to set out the detail, although it was intended that bins would be collected at the same time as the above shop scheme.  Commercial waste was managed by a separate waste contract.

 

Members discussed the inclusion of an additional contract in relation to commercial waste and requested that a condition be added in relation to the collection of commercial waste from Percival Court rather than the High Road, unless permission was granted in writing by the Council.

 

Members also questioned the term ‘reasonable endeavours’ and whether the term could be made stronger.  Ed Telepneff, Legal, advised that ‘best endeavours’ was a legal term, however ‘all reasonable endeavours’ or ‘best endeavours’ could also be used.  The applicant would not be able to say that improvements would be made to the whole section of land, as they did not own the whole section.

 

Councillor Bevan proposed that the application be refused on the same grounds as previous refusal and in relation to the uncertainty that Percival Court would be resurfaced to a better standard.  The was seconded by Councillor Rice.

 

The Chair moved to the vote to refuse the application and with three in favour, six against and one abstention, the vote to refuse was not carried.

 

Dean Hermitage, Head of Development Management, summed up and advised that the recommendation was to grant the application.  He added that an additional condition in relation to commercial waste could be added and following a discussion with the Committee, the Heads of Terms in relation to surface improvements be amended to read ‘best endevours’.

 

The Chair moved to the vote to grant the application with the additional condition and amendment to the Heads of Terms wording and following  ...  view the full minutes text for item 524.

525.

HGY/2020/2762 10-12 Bidwell Gardens pdf icon PDF 2 MB

Proposal: Erection of detached dwellinghouse with associated hard and soft landscaping.

 

Recommendation: GRANT

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for the erection of a detached dwellinghouse with associated hard and soft landscaping.

 

Tim Loo spoke in objection to the application. It was noted that Policy DM7 of the Haringey Development Management Development Plan Document (DPD) covered development on infill, backland, and garden land sites and stated that there was a presumption against loss of garden land unless it represented comprehensive redevelopment of a number of whole land plots. The objector felt that paragraphs 6.17 and 6.19 of the report were misleading or incorrect. It was explained that paragraph 6.17 stated that the site was located in part of the rear gardens of 10 and 12 Bidwell Gardens but the site was situated in the garden of 10 Bidwell Gardens only. It was suggested that this failed to meet the requirements of Policy DM7.

 

The objector noted that paragraph 6.27 of the report found that there would be no unacceptable harm to the living conditions of neighbouring residents. The objector believed that the proposal would result in an unacceptable harm and loss of privacy to neighbours. It was stated that, in the proposed design, the upper window would have a view of the neighbour’s primary living space, rear bedrooms on the first floor, and garden. It was commented that the proposal was a large, black building which relied on soft landscaping to limit the visual impact, but it was stated that this could be removed. It was added that the proposal would not provide any affordable housing.

 

Shirley Hopper spoke in objection to the application. It was stated that the proposal would impact use of the neighbouring garden. It was explained that the neighbouring garden was narrow and north-facing which meant that optimal use was enjoyed at the end of the garden, adjacent to the proposed building; it was also noted that there were a number of mature plants and trees in this area that would be affected. The objector commented that the existing gardens along Bidwell Gardens formed a green corridor which housed many birds, and that the proposal would have a detrimental impact on wildlife. It was understood that Policy DM7 was designed to prevent the building of houses in back gardens, and it was difficult to accept that the application had been recommended for approval.

 

Councillor Rossetti spoke in objection to the application. She noted that there had been three applications with objections and one lost appeal in relation to this proposal. It was stated that, on each occasion, the application had been rejected due to the overbearing character, loss of privacy, and detrimental impact on neighbouring properties. It was noted that the presumption in favour of sustainable development was not new and, in 2012, the appeal in relation to this proposal was still refused. Councillor Rossetti queried why the current proposal was recommended for approval as she did not consider the proposal to be sustainable development and she stated that it would not have a significant impact on solving the housing  ...  view the full minutes text for item 525.

526.

PPA/2020/0025 29-33 The Hale N17 9JZ pdf icon PDF 592 KB

Proposal: Demolition of existing buildings and construction of a part 7, part 24 storey building to provide 600sqm retail floorspace (Class E uses) accommodation at base; and 435 rooms of purpose-built student accommodation with communal amenity & ancillary spaces above; ancillary uses to student housing at ground level, with associated cycle parking & refuse storage at basement level; and associated landscaping and public realm works (elements of which will provide servicing and disabled drop off)

Minutes:

This item was deferred as the meeting had run past 22.00hrs.

527.

UPDATE ON MAJOR PROPOSALS pdf icon PDF 179 KB

To advise of major proposals in the pipeline including those awaiting the issue of the decision notice following a committee resolution and subsequent signature of the section 106 agreement; applications submitted and awaiting determination; and proposals being discussed at the pre-application stage.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

 

The Chair requested that any questions be sent directly to Dean Hermitage, Head of Development Management.

528.

APPLICATIONS DETERMINED UNDER DELEGATED POWERS pdf icon PDF 160 KB

To advise the Planning Committee of decisions on planning applications taken under delegated powers for the period 22.2.21-2.4.21.

Minutes:

The Chair requested that any questions be sent directly to Dean Hermitage, Head of Development Management.

529.

NEW ITEMS OF URGENT BUSINESS

To consider any items admitted at item 4 above.

Minutes:

None.

530.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

27 May 2021 – Strategic Planning Committee (to approve membership of the Planning Committee)

 

7 June 2021 – Planning Committee

 

Minutes:

5 July 2021