Agenda item

Proposal - Full planning application for the demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a replacement building up to four storeys to include residential (C3); retail (A1); and flexible D1/B1 uses; hard and soft landscaping works including a residential podium; and associated works.

Recommendation: GRANT

Clerks note – the Chair suspended Standing Orders at 21.50 to allow the meeting to continue past 22.00 for the consideration of this item.

The Committee considered an application for the approval of the demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a replacement building up to four storeys to include residential (C3); retail (A1); and flexible D1/B1 uses; hard and soft landscaping works including a residential podium; and associated works.

Officers and the applicant team responded to questions from the Committee:

-           Block b could be accessed via the High Road and by the alleyway.  Officers had looked to ensure that the entrance was well lit and had a canopy to make the space more hospitable and welcoming.

-           The dentist would be accessed from the High Road, via a lift.

-           The cycle parking had been redesigned to be solely residential.

-           A condition to develop a waste management plan had been included, and it was expected that it would be the responsibility of the management company or residents to take the bins to the front of the building for waste collection.  Members commented that the current proposals were not suitable and that further options should be explored.

-           The relocation of the Co-Op Funeral Directors had been signed off by the company’s surveyors.

-           Discussions were being held with Tottenham Hotspur to ensure that parking was managed better on matchdays and the use of Percival Court.

-           The wheelchair accessible unit was contained in Block B which was accessible from the High Road.

-           There was an additional legal obligation to ensure that future residents were aware of the adjoining pub garden prior to occupation.

Members commented that the playground area on a roof next to a loud pub did not make sense.  The applicant advised that it was not a playground but a communal terrace space which could accommodate the small number of children that may live in the building. 

The Committee requested that condition one be amended to reduce the time limit to three years.

Mr Hermitage summed up the report and advised that the recommendation was to grant the application subject to the s106 agreement, the conditions and informatives set out in the report and addendum, and the amendment to condition one to reduce the time limit to three years.

Councillor Cawley-Harrison moved that the application be refused on the grounds that Percival Court did not provide a safe passageway for access, including residents accessing cycle parking, commercial premises and access to the disabled parking bay.  Councillor Bevan seconded the proposal and added the unsuitable waste management proposal to the reasons for rejection.

Following a vote with six in favour and four against, it was RESOLVED that the application be refused.