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Premier House 10 Greycoat Place London SW1P 1SB

Minutes:

Partial demolition and remodelling of the principal facades and fifth floor of the building; addition of two storeys for office use and provision of retail, restaurant and gym uses at ground and basement levels. Formation of terraces on sixth and seventh floors for office use and associated plant and cycle parking.

 

An updated drawing of the proposed front (south) elevation had been circulated to the Sub-Committee.

 

The presenting officer tabled the following additional conditions:

 

34. The development shall achieve an' Excellent' rating under the BREEAM New Construction (2011 edition) (or any such national measure of sustainability for house design that replaces that scheme of the same standard).

 

Reason: To make sure that the development affects the environment as little as possible, as set out in Policies 36 and 38 of the City Plan 2019 - 2040 (April 2021). 

 

35. The BREEAM assessment required by condition 34 must be completed and certified by the Building Research Establishment and a copy of the certificate detailing the award score for the building shall be submitted to us within 16 weeks of first occupation. In the event that this fails to meet the proposed 'Excellent' rating or minimum score (or equivalent) a full schedule of costs and works to achieve such a rating shall be submitted at the same time. In the event that the Council considers it is practicable and reasonable to require the implementation of these remedial works to achieve such a rating such measures, or alternatives to secure off site remedial actions, shall be carried out within six months of any such determination.

 

Reason: To make sure that the development affects the environment as little as possible, as set out in Policies 36 and 38 of the City Plan 2019 - 2040 (April 2021).

 

           The planning officer tabled the following amended condition 32:

 

32. You must apply to us for approval of a servicing management plan for the retail, restaurant and gym within Class E (a) (retail), (b) (café/restaurant), (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), (financial and professional services) and (d) (indoor sport/fitness) hereby approved.  The plan must identify the process, internal storage locations, scheduling of deliveries and staffing arrangements, as well as how delivery vehicle size will be managed and how the time the delivered times spend on the highway will be minimised.  You must not use this part of the development for the Class E uses hereby approved until we have approved what you have sent us. Thereafter you must carry out the servicing according to the approved plan and for the life of the development.

 

Rory Joyce addressed the Sub-Committee in support of the application.

 

Trevor Morriss addressed the Sub-Committee in support of the application.

 

Stewart Marshall addressed the Sub-Committee in objection to the application.

 

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY:

 

1)               That conditional permission, as amended, be granted, subject to:

 

a)       the completion of a S106 legal agreement to secure:

 

i)    payment for all the highway works immediately surrounding the site required for the development to occur, including reinstatement of the redundant crossovers and associated work to be carried out prior to occupation;

 

ii)   a financial contribution of £40,058.75 (index linked and payable of commencement) to Westminster employment Service;

 

iii) a Carbon Offset Contribution of £283,575 (index linked) payable prior to the commencement of development, and

 

iv) cost of monitoring.

 

b)       the following additional informatives:

 

i)   the applicant be encouraged to organise a residents liaison group during the construction period, and

 

ii)  WCC to investigate as part of the highways works to see if it would be possible to incorporate street tree planting (subject to services under the footway).  

 

2)            If the legal agreement had not been completed within six weeks of the date of the Committee resolution, then:

 

a) The Director of Place Shaping and Town Planning should consider whether the permission can be issued with additional conditions attached to secure the benefits listed above. If this was possible and appropriate, the Director of Place Shaping and Town Planning was authorised to determine and issue such a decision under Delegated Powers; however, if not

 

b) The Director of Place Shaping and Town Planning should consider whether permission should be refused on the grounds that it had not proved possible to complete an agreement within the appropriate timescale, and that the proposals were unacceptable in the absence of the benefits that would have been secured; if so, the Director of Place Shaping and Town Planning was authorised to determine the application and agree appropriate reasons for refusal under Delegated Powers.

 

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