Decision Maker: Planning Board

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: November 12, 2024

Purpose:

Content: Planning Consent – Ref: 22/3162/F   Resolved that full planning permission be granted for the redevelopment (together with demolition and part demolition of existing buildings) and refurbishment of the Island Site to provide co-living accommodation (Use Class Sui Generis), residential dwellings (Use Class C3(a)), community uses (Use Class E(d) and F2(b)), retail (Use Class E(a)), restaurants and cafes (Use Class E(b)) and offices (Use Class E(c)), new public realm with hard and soft landscaping, highways works, car parking, cycle parking, refuse and recycling storage, plant, external amenity space and associated works.   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 conditions (Appendix 2) to be detailed in the notice of determination; (iii) 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 officers’ report (Section 31.0) including payment of an in lieu affordable housing contribution of £5,065,000 with early and late stage reviews. (iv) 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.   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 31.0), 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 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 a comprehensive redevelopment of ‘the Island Site’, housing, affordable housing, health, transport and highway works, public transport enhancements, public realm improvements, biodiversity, employment and training, the development would fail to mitigate its impact on local services, amenities and infrastructure, environmental sustainability and open space contrary to policies H3, H5, H(e), EA4, EA(c), OS1, E1, CH(a), IM1, IM4, IM(a) and IM(b) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (2014), the Planning Obligations (s106) Guidance SPD (2015) and Woolwich Town Centre Masterplan SPD (2012).   Listed Building Consent – Ref: 22/3163/L   Resolved that listed building consent be granted for internal and external alterations, demolition, repair and refurbishment works to the Grade II listed University of Greenwich, Woolwich Campus: Original Building, Gymnasium to Rear and Corner Entrance Range to facilitate the change of use of the building to twenty residential dwellings (Use Class C3(a)), together with community uses (Use Class E(d) and F2(b)) at the basement level and co-living communal space (within the Gymnasium) (Use Class Sui Generis).   Subject to:   (i)           Conditions set out in Appendix 3 of this report   (ii) The Assistant Director of Planning & Building Control be authorised to make any minor changes to the detailed wording of the recommended conditions as set out in Appendix 3, its addendums and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting, where the Assistant Director of Planning & Building Control considers it appropriate, before issuing the final decision notice