This meeting will include a report about how much weight should be given to the policies in the council's new Local Plan, and the committee will also consider three planning applications.

Weighting of New Local Plan Policies

The committee will receive a report about how much weight should be given to the policies in the New Draft Harrow Local Plan 2021 – 2041 (Regulation 19 Version).¹

The council will be deciding how much weight to give to the new Local Plan in deciding future planning applications. In doing so it has to take account of the policies in the existing Harrow Development Management Policies Local Plan (2013), The London Plan (2021), and the National Planning Policy Framework. The report says that the new Local Plan can, in general terms...be considered to have potential to be given moderate weight in the determination of planning applications. The report includes an appendix that lists every policy in the new Local Plan, and explains the level of objection it received during the Regulation 18 consultation stage and whether it is consistent with the National Planning Policy Framework and London Plan.

Land South of Anmer Lodge

The committee will consider an application for planning permission for the erection of seven new residential dwellings on Land South of Anmer Lodge, Stanmore. The application site is a car park and is located in Stanmore District Centre. The report pack recommends that planning permission should be granted.

John Lyon School

The committee will consider an application to vary the Section 106² agreement attached to planning permission for a swimming pool at John Lyon School.

The school wants to vary the agreement so that the swimming pool can be used by the local community. Harrow Hill Trust objected to the application, saying that the proposed change in the agreement would not provide a sufficient benefit to the community. They said:

Use solely for 1/1 or 2/1 private lessons evenings and weekends with a community swim of 30 minutes for 6 people once a week does not make for any significant community benefit...What is required is for the definition of Permitted Recreational Users to include the public or local residents as defined by dwelling within a radius of 1 mile. The report pack recommends that the Deed of Variation should be granted subject to the school agreeing to a new definition of Permitted Recreational Uses which states: swimming pool for purposes connected with the provision of physical education of pupils of the school or sporting recreation for parents and immediate families of pupils attending the school members of staff and their families and sports teams of the Old Lyonian Association or for the provision of Swimming Sessions during Swimming Hours. The report pack explains that Swimming Sessions are defined as swimming sessions which may include no more than forty (40) swimmers and a maximum of sixteen (16) parked cars at the school during sessions for staff and swimmers primarily for Harrow Residents. It also explains that Swimming Hours are defined as between the hours of 6pm – 9pm on weekdays and 9am - 7pm at weekends.

127 Bellamy Drive

The committee will consider an application for planning permission for the conversion of a dwelling into two flats at 127 Bellamy Drive, Stanmore. The application has received 15 objections from local residents, raising concerns about overdevelopment, parking, anti-social behaviour and noise. The applicant's agent, Mr H Patel, is named in the report pack. The report pack recommends that planning permission should be granted.