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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.
The application sought approval for reconfiguration and extensions,
incorporating dormer windows, and alterations to roof of building to provide14
residential units (net increase of 9) along with bin and cycle storage.
At 6 February 2019 Planning
Committee members triggered the adjourned decision protocol as they were minded
to go against officer recommendation and refuse the application. The Committee
were minded to refuse due to four reasons listed below:
1.
Units S3, S5 and S6 fail to meet the minimum
nationally described space standards required by policy 50 and the development
would therefore not provide an adequate level of amenity for future occupiers
of these flats. The proposal is therefore contrary to policy 50 of the
Cambridge Local Plan 2018.
2.
The proposed development fails to provide any
off-street car parking. The car free nature of the development cannot be
realistically enforced due to the lack of parking controls on street. The
proposal would therefore add additional on street car parking demand contrary
to policies 82 and 52(d) of the Cambridge Local Plan 2018.
3.
The applicant has failed to provide sufficient
surface water drainage details to demonstrate the site can be appropriately
drained. The proposal is therefore contrary to policy 31 of the Cambridge Local
Plan 2018.
4.
The proposal for 9 additional units will result in
an intensification of the use of the garden which will cause unacceptable
levels of noise and disturbance to 186 Mill Road contrary to policies 52 and 53
of the Cambridge Local Plan 2018.
The Senior Planner updated her report by stating:
i.
Comments had now been received from the Drainage
Officer who said that surface water could be controlled through conditions.
ii.
Proposed a new drainage condition.
No development
above ground level, other than demolition, shall commence until full details of
green roofs have been submitted to and approved in
writing by the local planning authority and these works shall be carried out as
approved. The details shall include
details of build-ups, make up of substrates, planting plans for biodiverse
roofs, methodologies for translocation strategy and drainage details where
applicable. The green roofs once
installed shall be maintained in perpetuity.
Reason:
In the interests of responding suitably to climate change and water management
(Cambridge Local Plan 2018 Policy 31).
iii.
An additional plan had been received from the
Applicant.
The Legal Advisor referred to the Senior Planner’s report which
addressed points raised in the ‘minded to refuse’
decision and said that in his opinion the reasons for refusal were not
defendable on policy or planning grounds.
Some Councillors felt the concerns raised in the ‘minded to refuse’
decision were still valid and had not been addressed.
The Committee:
Resolved (by 5 votes to 3) 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 plus additional drainage condition.
Report author: Mairead O'Sullivan
Publication date: 23/04/2019
Date of decision: 06/03/2019
Decided at meeting: 06/03/2019 - Planning
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