Minutes:
The Head of Planning Services presented this reserved matters application for student accommodation, this application was received following an appeal decision by the Planning Inspector to allow the outline application. An award of costs against the city council had been agreed.
The application was for 59 flats comprising 37 cluster flats, 21 studio flats and 1 warden’s flat. In total there would be 243 bed spaces and 9 car parking spaces.
The Head of Planning Services reported that revised plans had been requested and received, including improved design and a pedestrian access on the corner of Bonhay Road and Brunel Close. The revisions were considered to be an improvement since an entrance would create more activity and improve the design on the main road frontage.
Additional plans had also been received clarifying the proposed use of materials on the elevations. This information was indicative only, since it was still proposed to impose a condition requiring submission of details of materials for approval.
One late letter had been received raising two planning issues regarding concerns about the about use of painted render and potential antisocial hours of construction.
The Head of Planning Services confirmed that the use of materials would be dealt with by a condition already imposed on the outline permission. The imposition of a condition restricting hours of construction would be difficult to justify given that such a condition was not imposed on the outline permission, and the site was on a busy main road.
The recommendation was for approval with additional conditions requiring full details of the proposed boundary treatments and the proposed substation.
Mr O Leighton-Boyce (agent) spoke in support of the application. He made the following points:-
· accommodation would be used for students in full time education only
· new pedestrian access to the building had been created on corner of Bonhay Road
· there was another entrance at the rear of the building which would be used as a dropping off point.
RESOLVED that planning permission for redevelopment to provide 59 units for student accommodation parking, access to highway and associated works (approval sought of reserved matters on Ref. No 06/0255/01 granted November 2006) for siting, design, landscaping and external appearance be approved subject to the following conditions:
1) C17 - Submission of Materials
2) All conditions imposed on notice of outline approval (ref no. 06/0255/01) are hereby reiterated in as much as they relate to the development and have yet to be discharged in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To safeguard the rights of control by the Local Planning Authority in respect of the reserved matters.
3) Development shall not begin until a scheme for protecting the proposed accommodation from noise from vehicular and rail traffic has been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority, and all works which form part of the scheme shall be completed before any of the permitted dwellings are occupied.
Reason: In the interests of residential amenity.
4) Notwithstanding condition 2 no work shall commence on site under this permission until full details of the following have been submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority and the following shall thereafter be provided in accordance with such details:
a) all boundary treatments;
b) the proposed substation.
Reason: Insufficient information has been submitted with the application and in the interests of visual amenity.