Agenda and minutes

To note any apologies for absence and substitutions.

Apologies were received from Councillor Mohamed with no substitute.

To consider any urgent matters that the Chair has agreed should be considered at the meeting.

There were none.

To note any declarations of interest made by members.

There were none.

To determine whether items contain information that is exempt from disclosure by virtue of Part1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.

There were none.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 26 April 2023.

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the meeting held on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 were agreed as a true and correct record.

To share site visit details and note site visit attendance.

The following Committee members attended site visits prior to the Committee meeting:

Councillors Raza, Summers, Martin, Busuttil, Conti, Hamidi, Padda, Iqbal and Rice.

Marile van Eeden, Planning Officer, introduced the report and explained that the application before the Committee was for the construction of two buildings ranging in height from 3 – 8 storeys on a site in Ealing Town Centre, Sandringham Mews. The proposal was for a mixed-use development led by the provision of units with shared living rooms and communal amenity spaces, known as co-living units. The development was going include town centre uses and landscaping, and it was going to re-provision the existing public house on the site.

Sandringham Mews was located within the Ealing Metropolitan Town Centre within the Ealing Town Centre Conservation Area. Of the two buildings proposed, block A was going to be located along the High Street, and block B was going to be adjacent to Sandringham Mews. The ground floors of both blocks were going to include flexible use class E units, and these were going to allow for a variety of retail uses. The Draft Local Plan had designated the site for residential-led, mixed-use developments with significant retail, employment, and community space provision. Officers believed that the proposal was well designed and sympathetic to the local area, causing less than substantial harm to local heritage assets.

Ms van Eeden summed up the proposal and recommended to the Committee that it grant the application subject to conditions, a Section 106 legal agreement, and payment of a Community Infrastructure Levy to the Greater London Authority.

A briefing note in respect of the application had been produced by Planning Officers, circulated to the Committee and published on the Council’s website prior to the meeting. It had provided information on amendments to the report.

The Committee asked questions and debated the proposal. In response to some of the questions and points raised, officers confirmed that:

·       As part of the plans, the developer had agreed to re-fence the boundaries around the site, and this was going to include the boundaries with the nearby sub-station. Condition 20 of the recommendation requested of the developer that it provide details of their proposed boundary treatments in due course.

·       As well as the cycle storage which was proposed towards the rear of the sub-station, further cycle storage was going to be located in the basement of one of the blocks. No concerns had been raised during the consultation period about the flow of cyclists to and from the site.

·       10 disabled parking spaces were required on the site as part of the development. Officers were satisfied that there was sufficient on street parking spaces in the viscinity of the site and that some of these could be repurposed to become disabled car parking spaces. There were 5 existing disabled parking spaces next to block A.

·       The existing parking spaces at the back of the shops fronting onto Bond Street were going to remain. The construction management plan was expected to ensure that these spaces were available during construction.

·       Thames Water had submitted a response to the statutory consultation about the scheme and indicated  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7.

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 19 July 2023.

The date of the next meeting was Wednesday, 19 July 2023.