Issue - meetings

The Committee received a Section 73 application to vary condition 2 (Approved Plans) of planning permission reference number 19/1159/FUL (demolition of existing multi-storey car park and erection of an aparthotel (Use Class C1) alongside an underground public car park, public cycle store and associated works). The proposal sought to make the following changes:

Internal layout alterations, two additional aparthotel rooms at ground floor level, external elevational alterations, additional rooftop plant to facilitate the removal of all gas use from the scheme, rooftop screening and balustrade alterations, and other associated alterations.

The Principal Planner referred to details on the amendment sheet.

Mr Heselton (Applicant) addressed the Committee in support of the application.

Councillor Porrer (Ward Councillor) addressed the Committee about the application:

      i.         Welcomed removal of gas from the scheme and understood additional planting on the roof was related to this.

    ii.         Regretted as Ward Councillor that the opportunity wasn’t taken to look at toilet provision, including disabled access.

   iii.         As a current mobile phone mast was to be removed from the roof, would like to note concern around where the mast would be reinstated if new plant works no longer allowed it to be located on the roof. Especially as a potential replacement location[s] could be a green space such as Jesus Green.

Councillor Porrer withdrew from the meeting for this item and did not participate in the discussion or decision making.

The Committee:

Resolved (by 4 votes to 0 with 1 abstention) to grant the Section 73  application in accordance with the Officer recommendation, for the reasons set out in the Officer’s report, subject to the planning conditions recommended by the officer in the report and amendment sheet.