Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: May 27, 2025

Purpose:

Content: Resolved that the Hybrid Planning Application, comprising a Detailed Component (No Matters Reserved) and an Outline Component (Landscaping, Scale and Appearance Reserved) be granted for:     i.        Detailed Component: for the demolition of existing buildings and structures on site and redevelopment of the eastern area (Phase 1) comprising residential dwellings (Use Class C3), non-residential Floorspace (Use Class E) and improvements to public realm with hard and soft landscaping, highways works, car parking, cycle parking, refuse and recycling storage, plant and energy centre, external amenity space and playspace.   ii.        Outline Component (Landscaping, Scale and Appearance Reserved): to provide up to 45,000 sqm floorspace GEA, comprising up to 358 residential units and up to 1,300 sqm of non-residential Floorspace within Class E, F1 and F2.   Consent subject to: ·        Referral of the application to the Mayor of London as required under the terms of The Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008.   ·        This includes an amendment to Condition 47 (Cycle Parking – Residential and Non-Residential) to enhance the quantity and variety of cycle parking spaces, specifically to accommodate cargo bikes and larger cycles. The third bullet point under Condition 47 shall be amended to read: ·        Cycle Stand Types and Sizes: Details of the types and sizes of bicycle stands to be implemented within the development, including increased provision for cargo bikes and other larger cycle types.   ·        The prior completion of an agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, containing the planning obligations summarised in the heads of terms as set out in the report (Section 29.0) with the amended requirement that the intermediate tenure should be delivered as discount market rent and not as  shared ownership units.   ·        A statement being placed on the Statutory Register confirming the main reasons and consideration on which the decision was based were those set out in the report of the Director of Regeneration, Enterprise and Skills as required by Regulation 30 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.   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 in the report (Appendix 2), its addendums 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 the detailed terms of the section 106 agreement and form of the planning obligations as set out in this report (Section 29.0), its addendums and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting.   (iii)    Consider, in the event that the Section 106 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 planning obligations; and if the Assistant (Planning & Building Control) considers it appropriate, to determine the application with reasons for refusal which will include the following: ·               In the absence of a legal agreement securing Affordable Housing and financial and non-financial contributions, including provisions for Employment, Skills and Training, Highways (including the Charlton Riverside Transport Infrastructure Contribution and TfL Bus Tariff), and Carbon Offsetting, the proposed development fails to maximise the delivery of affordable housing and to adequately mitigate its impact on local services, amenities, and infrastructure. Consequently, the proposal is contrary to London Plan policies SD1, H4, H5, H6, H10, E2, E11, D13, G7, T1, SI2, and DF1, as well as policies H3, E1, E2, EA(c), OS(c), IM1, IM4, IM(a), and IM(b) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (2014), the Charlton Riverside SPD (2017), and the Planning Obligations (S106) Guidance SPD (2015).