Agenda item

Proposal: Redevelopment of 18 West Road and Unit 4 West Mews comprising 2no. warehouses (Use Class B2/B8) with ancillary mezzanine floorspace and associated landscaping, yard, parking, access and infrastructure.

Sarah Madondo, Planning Officer, introduced the item for redevelopment of 18 West Road and Unit 4 West Mews comprising 2no. warehouses (Use Class B2/B8) with ancillary mezzanine floorspace and associated landscaping, yard, parking, access and infrastructure.

The following was noted in response to questions from the committee:

• This was an existing highway and existing industrial area; there were established patterns of traffic and usage. There was no weight restriction on this road, so all vehicles could use it. Currently on the site HGVS would show up and park on the pavement, whereas this proposal accounted for highways, servicing and delivery. Officers were comfortable from a highways and transport planning point of view.
• Thefences proposed are similar to those currently being erected on Willoughby Road. There was a metal cladding system on this proposal and officers were happy with the quality of the metal.
• Highways work would be secured by section 278 agreement, the applicant would design the scheme, engineers would then estimate how much the scheme costs and that would be based on their rates and the agreed scope of work.
• The discrepancies on the energy modelling had not been resolved. There was a pre commencement condition to submit a revised energy statement to ensure that the modelling was done correctly. There was a chance that this could still be a zero carbon development, if not then there was a mechanism to get the carbon offset contribution through the Section 106 agreement.
• There was a provision in our planning obligations SPD to secure end user jobs. In this case, it wasn’t clear that the applicant would be speaking to occupiers after they had planning permission to impose those obligations.
• Officers had the obligations on the construction, so local people would get the chance and priority to work in the construction.

The Chair asked Robbie McNaugher, Head of Development Management and Enforcement Planning to sum up the recommendations as set out in the report.  The Chair moved that the recommendation be granted following a vote with 9 for, 0 against and 0 abstention.

RESOLVED

1. That the Committee resolve to GRANT planning permission and that the Assistant Director of Planning, Building Standards & Sustainability or the Head of Development Management is authorised to issue the planning permission and impose conditions and informatives subject to the signing of a legal agreement providing the obligations as set out in the Heads of Terms below.
2. That the legal agreement referred to in resolution (2.1) above is to be completed no later than 9th October 2024 or within such extended time as the Assistant Director Planning, Building Standards & Sustainability/Head of Development Management shall in her/his sole discretion allow; and
3. That, following completion of the agreement(s) referred to in resolution (2.1) within the time period provided for in resolution (2.2) above, planning permission shall be granted in accordance with the Planning Application subject to the attachment of the conditions and informatives; and
4. That delegated authority be granted to the Head of Development Management or the Assistant Director Planning, Building Standards and Sustainability to make any alterations, additions or deletions to the recommended heads of terms and/or recommended conditions and informatives as set out in this report and to further delegate this power provided this authority shall be exercised in consultation with the Chair (or in their absence the Vice-Chair) of the Sub-Committee. Summary Lists of Conditions, Informatives and Heads of Terms

Summary of Conditions (the full text of the recommended conditions can be found in Appendix 1 of this report).

Conditions

1. Development begun no later than three years from date of decision

2. In accordance with approved plans

3. Materials submitted for approval

4. Land contamination

5. Unexpected contamination

6. Demolition/Construction Environmental Management Plans

7. Waste and recycling

8. CMP

9. Restrictive uses classes

10. Cycle parking Design and Layout

11. Surface Water Drainage

12. Surface Water Drainage Management and maintenance

13. Secure by design accreditation

14. Secure by design certification

15. Energy Strategy

16. Overheating

17. Urban Green factor

18. BREEAM

19. External lighting

20. Boundary treatment

21. Plant Noise

22. Section 278

23. Delivery and Service plan

24. Disabled parking bays

25. Car Parking Maintenance Plan

26. Electric Vehicle charging

27. Hard and soft landscaping works

28. Tree protection

29. Noise Management

30. Noise Management monitoring

31. Living roofs

Informatives

1) CIL liable

2) Hours of construction

3) Party Wall Act

4) Street Numbering

5) Sprinklers

6) Water pressure

7) Thames Water Groundwater Risk Management Permit

8) Thames Water Underground Asset

9) Asbestos

10) Secure by design

11) Land ownership

12) NPPF