Agenda item

PROPOSAL:  full planning application for the construction of one industrial unit (Use Classes B1c and B8) and associated vehicle access, parking and landscaping. 

Councillor Marilyn Ashton proposed that the hours of operation should be: Monday to Saturday, 7am to 10pm, and Sunday, 9am to 4pm. These hours should be attached to the planning permission, as opposed to being put to the applicant. In the event the applicant disagreed with them, the alternative suggestions would come back to the Committee. 

The proposal was seconded, put to the vote and lost.

Councillors Ali, Ferry, Maru and Shah voted against the proposal.

Councillors Ashton, Baxter and Patel voted for the proposal.

The Committee resolved to approve officer recommendations (as amended by the Addendum), and to delegate authority to the Interim Chief Planning Officer to agree hours of operation with the applicant.

The Planning Committee was asked to:

RECOMMENDATION A

1)            agree the reasons for approval as set out in the report; and

2)            grant planning permission subject to the Conditions listed in Appendix 1 of the report, as amended by the Addendum, and subject to authority being delegated to the Interim Chief Planning Officer in consultation with the Director of Legal and Governance Services for the completion of a legal agreement under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling legislation and subject to minor amendments to the conditions (set out in Appendix 1 of the report) or the legal agreement. The Section 106 Agreement Heads of Terms would cover the following matters :

Highways and Parking

i.              Travel Plan

a)     submission of a travel plan based on the framework travel plan for each phase of development prior to occupation and to cover an initial monitoring period of 5 years.

ii.            Appointment of a Travel Plan Co-ordinator.

iii.           Employment and Training Plan

a)     payment of local Employment Contribution to the Council upon commencement of development and to be used towards employment and training initiatives within the Council’s administrative area; and

b)     submission of an employment, training and recruitment plan to the Council for its approval.

iv.           Legal Costs and Monitoring Fee

a)     payment of section 106 monitoring fee upon completion of section 106 agreement; and

b)     payment of all reasonable legal fees upon completion of section 106 agreement.

RECOMMENDATION B

That if the Section 106 Agreement was not completed by 23 December 2020 or as such extended period as may be agreed by the Interim Chief Planning Officer, then it was recommended to delegate the decision to REFUSE planning permission to the Chief Planning Officer on the grounds that:

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 (2019), policies 3.11, 3.13, 5.2, 6.3, 7.4, 7.5 and 7.6 of The London Plan (2016), Core Strategy (2012) policy CS1, policies AAP3, AAP13 and AAP19 of the Harrow and Wealdstone Area Action Plan(2013) and policies DM1, DM2 DM42, DM43 and DM50 of the Harrow Development Management Polices Local Plan and the Supplementary Planning Document: Planning Obligations (2013).

DECISION:  GRANT

The Committee wished it to be recorded that the decision to grant the

application was by a majority of votes.

Councillors Ali, Ferry, Maru  and Shah voted for the application.

Councillors Ashton, Baxter and Patel abstained from voting.