Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: December 10, 2024

Purpose:

Content: Resolved that full planning permission be GRANTED for the demolition of existing structures on site and construction of building comprising a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Transition Learning Centre (Use Class F1 (a)) together with outbuildings/covered structures and hard and soft landscaping, including new minibus drop off bay.   Consent subject to - (i)           The prior completion of a Directors’ Agreement securing the heads of terms as summarised in this report (obligations set out in Section 24); and (ii)          The Conditions as set out at Appendix 2 of the report and its addendum to be detailed in the notice of determination and any addendums.   That the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) be authorised to: (i)           Make any minor changes to the detailed wording of the recommended conditions as set out at Appendix 2) of the report and its addendum and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting, where the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) considers it appropriate, before issuing the final decision notice (ii)         Finalise and make any minor changes to the detailed terms of the Directors’ Agreement as set out in this report (Section 24), its addendums and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting. (iii)        Consider, in the event that the Directors’ Agreement is not completed within three (3) months of the date of this Planning Board resolution, whether consent should be refused on the grounds that the agreement has not been completed within the appropriate timescale, and that the proposals are unacceptable in the absence of the recommended obligations; and if the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) considers it appropriate, to determine the application with reasons for refusal which will include the following: ·     In the absence of  agreement to secure the necessary obligations regarding sustainable transport, highway works, carbon savings and biodiversity net gain the development would fail to mitigate its impact on the public highways, environmental sustainability and ecology contrary to policies, SI 2, SI 3, T2, T4, G6 and DF1 of the London Plan (2021) and E1, OS4, OS(f), IM4, and IM(a)) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (Adopted July 2014), and the Planning Obligations (s106) Guidance SPD (July 2015).