Decision details

The Committee received an application for Listed Building Consent.

The application sought approval for demolition of the British Transport Police (BTP) wing and the canopy to the Platform.

The City Development Manager referred to new condition No 8 set out on the amendment sheet which had been handed to Members.

The Committee:

Resolved unanimously (by 7 votes to 0) to accept the officer recommendation to approve planning permission as per the agenda, including additional condition 8 as below and delegated authority was given to officers to allow variation of the wording of condition 2.

Pre-Committee Amendments to Recommendation:

Additional condition

8       No development shall take place until a scheme of investigation for a programme of historic building recording of the British Transport Police wing has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority in writing.  The approved scheme shall be implemented before any demolition works commence and a copy of the historic building record shall be deposited with each of the following organisations: the Cambridgeshire Collection of the Central Library, Lion Yard, Cambridge; the County Archive, Shire Hall, Castle Hill, Cambridge, and the local planning authority.

Reason: To foster understanding of the building's importance in the national and Cambridge context, and to ensure proper recording of any aspects of the building's special interest which are to be lost or altered. (Cambridge Local Plan 2006, policy 4/10 and 4/11)

Reasons for Approval

1.      This development has been approved, conditionally, because subject to those requirements it is considered to conform to the Development Plan as a whole, particularly the following policies:

Cambridge Local Plan (2006): 4/10, 4/11 4/13 8/2 9/9

2.      The decision has been made having had regard to all other material planning considerations, none of which was considered to have been of such significance as to justify doing other than grant planning permission.

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