Issue - meetings

PROPOSAL:  Creation of additional two storeys (third and fourth floor levels to existing building) comprising of eight self-contained flats ( 4x1 person studios, 2x1bed and 2x2bed) and cycle stores and associated external alterations.

RECOMMENDATION A

The Planning Committee is asked to:

1)              Agree the reasons for approval subject to conditions as set out in this report, and

2)              Grant planning permission subject to authority being delegated to the Chief Planning Officer in consultation with the Director of Legal and Governance Services for the completion of the Section 106 legal agreement and other enabling development and issue of the planning permission, subject to amendments to the conditions, including the insertion or deletion of conditions as deemed fit and appropriate to the development or the amendments to the legal agreement as required.  The S106 agreement Heads of Terms would cover parking permit restrictions, legal costs, administration and monitoring.:

RECOMMENDATION B

That if, by 30th November 2023, or such extended period as may be agreed in writing by the Chief Planning Officer, then delegate the decision to the Chief Planning Officer to REFUSE planning permission for the following reason.

1.              The proposed development, in the absence of a Legal Agreement to provide appropriate improvements, benefits and monitoring that directly relate to the development, would fail to adequately mitigate the impact of the development on the wider area and provide for necessary social, environmental and physical infrastructural improvements arising directly from the development, contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework (2023), policies T6 and T6.1 of The London Plan (2021), policy CS1 of the Core Strategy (2012), AAP9 of the Harrow and Wealdstone Area Action Plan (2013), policies DM42 and DM50 of the Harrow Development Management Polices Local Plan.

DECISION:  APPROVE – subject to completion of the Section 106 legal agreement.

The Committee wished it to be recorded that the decision to approve the application was unanimous.