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Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee received an application for
full planning permission and noted the additional information included in the
amendment sheet and the late representation from Cambridge, Past, Present and
Future.
The application sought approval for demolition of the existing office
building and removal of the 145 associated car parking spaces (use class B1a)
and construction of College accommodation (comprising 243 en-suite
rooms and 24 studios), landscaping and access arrangements (use class sui
generis).
The Principal Planner addressed the Committee to clarify Committee
comments regarding cycling provision, design concerns and summer occupation.
Following discussion by the Committee, the Chair sought advice from the
Legal Representative and from Planning Officers, regarding the merits of
deferring the application on the basis of further consultation being undertaken
with the County Council regarding highways mitigation and detailed design
elements of the proposal being made more apparent. Planning Officers advised
that there were no grounds for deferral.
The Committee resolved to move to the vote in agreement that the colour
of the bricks and treatment of the mortar was to be delegated to Officers and
controlled through condition, that there was no policy to restrict out-of-term
time occupation of the building and that the highways mitigation/consultation
had been undertaken satisfactorily.
The Committee requested that officers provide Committee Members
with the opportunity to view and comment on the brick sample panel before
condition 16 was discharged.
The Committee:
Resolved (by 5 votes to 0 with 2 abstentions) to grant the
application for planning permission in accordance with the officer
recommendation, for the reasons set out in the officer report, and subject to
the conditions recommended by the officers.
Report author: Toby Williams
Publication date: 28/02/2017
Date of decision: 01/02/2017
Decided at meeting: 01/02/2017 - Planning
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