Issue - meetings

The Committee received an application for a section 73 variation of Condition 2 (Approved Drawings) of planning permission 17/1497/FUL (Erection of 64 student rooms, 7 student kitchens, 4 college offices, music practice room and seminar rooms, commercial unit (386 sqm) provision of a connection to the Todd Building and associated landscaping and cycle parking (includes demolition of later structure of 6-10 with facade retention, demolition of 12 to 16 and alterations to 18)) to enable alterations to the design and allow for internal adjustments for fire precautions, plant and renewable energy features.

 

The Planner updated her report by referring to updated details and the removal of condition 21 on the amendment sheet.

 

The Committee received a representation in objection to the application from a resident of King Street. The written statement was read by the Committee Manager:

      i.          Wrote as the lessee (for the last 15) years of this project’s adjoining neighbour. A business now called the Stolen Liquor Loft and Restaurant, previously under my care as d'Arry's restaurant.

     ii.          Asked  the  determination of the application be adjourned and remains adjourned until Objector’s neighbours demonstrated that they were trust worthy applicants by meeting the planning conditions previously placed upon them and disregarded to date.

   iii.          The applicants were granted consent to demolish and rebuild 6 - 18 Kings Street but proceeded to demolish without fulfilling the planning conditions placed upon them. 

   iv.          They had not agreed noise management or mitigation measures prior to demolition commencement. Despite the demolition being broadly complete, critical planning conditions (from perspective as a neighbour), relating to the management of the site remained unapproved.

 

Ms Page (Applicant’s Agent) addressed the Committee in support of the application.

 

Members were asked if they wished to defer this item or continue to consider it at today’s Committee. They resolved (by 4 votes to 4 and on the Chair’s casting vote) to determine the item at this Committee.

 

Councillor Porrer proposed amendments to the Officer’s recommendation to include informatives to:

      i.          mitigate the noise of air source heat pumps. The intention is to make the Applicant aware of this issue now as air source heat pumps are the subject of a separate application; and

     ii.          restrict the hours of music playing and amplification late into the evening. The intention is to ensure the Applicant aware that noise from the music room could disturb neighbours.

 

The amendments were carried unanimously.

 

In response to Councillor Thornburrow request to include reference to condition 12G, the Area Development Manager offered Committee an amendment to the Officer’s recommendation:

 

Condition 33. Notwithstanding the approved plans, prior to any development above slab level the installation of any roof top plant or PV panels, details of their height and proposed screening, including external appearance, shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The submission shall include reference to condition 12G in terms of the location of service risers and the location of the plant location. The rooftop plant and its screening shall be installed thereafter only in accordance the approved details.

Reason: To avoid harm to the special interest of the listed building and Conservation Area and in order to minimise the impact on residential amenity (Cambridge Local Plan 2018, policies 35, 61).

 

This offer as an amendment to the condition was carried unanimously.

 

Councillor Smart proposed an amendment to the Officer’s recommendation to include an informative advising that issues with neighbours should be resolved at an earlier stage in the process ie planning conditions should be discharged promptly.

 

This amendment was carried unanimously.

 

The Assistant Director proposed an amendment to the Officer’s recommendation to include an informative to use appropriate methods to clean the glazing.

 

The Committee:

 

Unanimously resolved to grant the section 73 application in accordance with the Officer recommendation, for the reasons set out in the Officer’s report, subject to:

      i.          the planning conditions set out in the Officer’s report and the  amendment sheet;

     ii.          the removal of condition 21;

   iii.          delegated authority to officers, in consultation with the Chair, Vice Chair and Spokes, to draft and include the amended condition 33 (set out above);

   iv.          informatives included on the planning permission in respect of:

a.    air source heat pumps;

b.    noise from the music room;

c.    discharge of planning conditions;

d.    cleaning of glazing.