Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: October 8, 2024

Purpose: 24/0146/F

Content: Resolved that full planning permission be granted for the demolition of existing car wash and pet hospital and any associated structures and the re-development of the site for a mixed-use development, including buildings, comprising a re-provided pet hospital (E(e)) floorspace, co-living accommodation (sui generis), hotel accommodation (C1 use), car parking spaces, cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping measures including playspace provision and refuse and recycling facilities.   That consent is 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 satisfactory completion of a Section 106 (S106) Legal Agreement (obligations set out in Section 32), as set out in the report and its addendum. (iii)         The Conditions set out in Appendix 2 and its addendum.   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 (including appended documents) and form of the planning obligations as set out in this report (Section 32), 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 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 the necessary obligations regarding affordable housing, transport and highway works, cycling infrastructure, public realm improvements, employment and training and sustainability the development would fail to mitigate its impact on local services, amenities and infrastructure, environmental sustainability and open space contrary to policies H1, H4, H5, SI 2, SI 3, T2, T4, T9 and DF1 of the London Plan (2021) and H3, EA(c), E1, CH(a), 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 (July 2015).