Agenda item

Amendment to approved scheme HGY/2004/1943 proposing replan for 18 dwellings (Blocks F, E, H and J), parking, access and associated landscaping.

RECOMMENDATION: Grant permission subject to conditions.

The Committee were informed that the application proposed an amendment to the approved scheme HGY/2004/1943 proposing a replan for 18 dwellings (Blocks F, E, H and J) along with the parking, access and associated landscaping area around these dwellings. The proposed changes to the approved sceme would result in a reduction in the total number of residential units on the site by two.  The part of the approved scheme that it proposed to alter was located in the north eastern corner of the site. The rest of the development would be constructed as per the approved 2004 scheme. In 2004 planning permission for the demolition of the existing buildings on the site and the construction of a new residential development comprising 128 residential units was granted. As part of this approved scheme an area (0.9 acres) of the former depot site was to be retained for employment purposes.

The site lay on the west side of Coppetts Road in the extreme northwest corner of the Borough. There were allotments across the road to the east. One of the entrances to St. Pancras and Islington Cemetery lay immediately to the north in the London Borough of Barnet. The Muswell Hill Playing Fields adjoin the application site to the Southwest and there is an existing residential development, a sports pavilion and educational facility to the south.The cemetery, allotments and playing fields are all designated as Metropolitan Open Land. The northern end of the site was very close to the North Circular Road. The former Lynx Depot site is slightly over 1.73 hectares in area.

Following the introduction of the report there being no points of clarification it was MOVED by the Chair and unanimously:

RESOLVED

That an amendment to the to approved scheme HGY/2004/1943 proposing replan for 18 dwellings (Blocks F, E, H and J), parking, access and associated landscaping be approved, and that the permission be subject to a Section 106 Legal Agreement, as a Variation to the original S106 Agreement, to take account of the revised scheme, the small reduction in numbers of units, and small changes to the make-up of the Affordable Housing element within the development.

INFORMATION RELATING TO APPLICATION REF: HGY/2008/0718

FOR PLANNING COMMITTEE DATED 09/06/2008

Location: Former Lynx Depot Coppetts RoadN10 1JP

Proposal: Amendment to approved scheme HGY/2004/1943 proposing replan for 18 dwellings (Blocks F, E, H and J), parking, access and associated landscaping.

Recommendation: GTD

Decision: GTD

Drawing No’s: 51-1099-200, 201, 202, 204; 7534/T/01-02, 02-02; 51-1099-J-201, 202; 51-1099-F-203, 204, 205; 51-1099-BIN-201 & 51-1099-CYC-201.

Conditions:

1. The development hereby authorised must be begun not later than the expiration of 3 years from the date of this permission, failing which the permission shall be of no effect.

Reason: This condition is imposed by virtue of the provisions of the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and to prevent the accumulation of unimplemented planning permissions.

2. The development hereby authorised shall be carried out in complete accordance with the plans and specifications submitted to, and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: In order to ensure the development is carried out in accordance with the approved details and in the interests of amenity.

INFORMATIVE: As the current application is for an amendment to the approved scheme conditions 1 - 16 of application No. HGY/2004/1943 need to be complied with.

Planning permission for residential re-development of the site was approved in 2004 and the current application proposes only minor amendments to this approved scheme. The proposed amendments would not give rise to any new planning issues. The Section 106 contributions that were agreed with the granting of the original permission (HGY/2004/1943) will apply to the amended scheme including the provision that 40% of the developments habitable rooms are to be affordable housing units. The  proposed amendments to the approved scheme are considered to be consistent with policies UD3 'General Principles', UD4 'Quality Design', UD7 'Waste Storage', UD8 'Planning Obligations', M10 'Parking for Development', SPG 1a 'Design Guidance and Design Statements' and SPG 3b 'Privacy/Overlooking, Aspect/Outlook and Daylight/Sunlight'.

Section 106 Yes