Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: October 21, 2025

Purpose:

Content: Resolved that full planning permission be granted for the demolition of existing sub-station and wall for the construction of a mixed use development comprising residential dwellings (Use Class C3), non-residential floor space (Use Class E) within four buildings surrounding a central landscaped podium and the east ventilation shaft and service buildings of Woolwich Crossrail Station. All with associated sub-station, cycle and car parking, access, servicing, highway, and public realm works and landscaping.   That consent was subject to: ·      A stage II 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 ·      the conditions, set out in Appendix 2 of the main report and its addendum, to be detailed in the notice of determination ·      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 set out in Section 32 of the main report.   That the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) the authorised to: §  make any minor changes to the detailed wording of the recommended conditions as set out in Appendix 2 of the report and its addendum, where the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) considers it appropriate, before issuing the decision notice §  finalise the detailed terms of the planning obligations pursuant to Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as set out in Section 34 of the report. §  Members confirming in their decision that account has been taken of environmental information, as required by Regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017; §  A statement being placed on the statutory register confirming the main reasons and consideration of which the Planning Board decision was based as required by Regulation 29 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017; §  To consider, in the event that the Section 106 Agreement has not been completed within three (3) months of the date of the 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 Director (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 to secure financial and non-financial obligations including affordable housing, health infrastructure, highways, training, local employment, equal opportunities and energy and sustainability the development would fail to deliver affordable housing and fails to mitigate its impact on highways and would therefore be contrary to policies H4, H5, T4, T6, S4, S12 and S14 of the London Plan (2021) and policies H2, IM1, IM4, IM(a), IM(b) and IM(c) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (Adopted July 2014) and the Planning obligations (s106) Guidance SPD (adopted July 2015).