Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: November 18, 2025

Purpose:

Content: Resolved that planning application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 in connection with the planning permission dated 22/12/2022 (Reference: 22/1017/F) be GRANTED for the demolition of the existing buildings and structure and the phased redevelopment of the site for a mixed-use scheme comprising a multipurpose leisure centre (Class F2), commercial and business uses (Class E), residential dwellings (Class C3), new public square and new public realm with hard and soft landscape works, highways works, parking, access and servicing arrangements, and associated works. Nad that was notedt that the amendment proposes a modification to Condition 2, 3, 6, 25, 26, 28, 33, 41, 51, 52, and 59 to increase building heights, increase quantum of residential units, reduce commercial space, and make other associated internal and external changes.   Consent subject to (i)        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;   (ii)      The prior completion of a Section 111 (S111) Legal Agreement   of the Local Government Act 1972 between the Council local planning authority (LPA) and Hill Residential Limited requiring that company and any other relevant interest holders upon obtaining relevant interests to enter an agreement or a confirmatory deed under S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 containing the planning obligations summarised in the heads of terms set out in this report relevant to the parts of the development other than the leisure centre (Section 26); and;   (iii)     The prior completion of a Directors’ Agreement (as set out in section 26) resecuring the contributions and other commitments agreed under planning permission ref:22/1017/F dated 22/12/2022 for the Leisure Centre (Phase1).   (iv)     Conditions set out in Appendix 2 and the addendum; and   (vi)  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 Place and Growth as required by Regulation 30 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.   That the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) be authroised to: (i)        Make any minor changes to the detailed wording of the recommended conditions as set out in 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 the detailed terms of the S111 agreement (including appended documents) and form of the planning obligations as set out in Section 26 of the report, its addendum and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting   (iii)     Consider, in the event that the S111 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 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(s) to secure Affordable Housing, financial and non-financial contributions including for Employment, Skills and Training, Transport and Highways and Carbon Offsetting, the development fails to maximise the delivery of affordable housing and fails to mitigate its impact on local services, amenities and infrastructure contrary to London Plan policies SD1, H4, H5, H6, H10, E11, T1,  SI 2 and DF1, policies H3, E1, EA(c), IM1, IM4, IM(a), IM(b) and IM(c) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (Adopted July 2014), the Woolwich Town Centre Masterplan SPD (adopted April 2012) and the Planning Obligations (s106) Guidance SPD (adopted July 2015).