Change of use from an estate agent use class E to a restaurant and hot food takeaway sui generis use class.

Further to Minute 79 of the meeting held on 1 December 2021 the Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report on the above application.  An update report was tabled at the meeting which set out additional details of the noise mitigation and odour extraction installations and had the applicant’s Design and Specification For Kitchen Ventilation System attached at Appendix 1.  The report also set out the proposed Litter Management Plan and brought to the Committee’s attention a petition that had been submitted to the Council at the time of the Committee’s previous consideration of the application (Minute 104 of the meeting held on 28 April 2021 refers).  The petition was attached to the report at Appendix 2. 

It was reported at the meeting that the recommended conditions for application 201585 should be amended to reflect the proposed conditions that had been reported to the Committee at its meeting on 1 December 2021 (Minute 79 refers).

Comments and objections were received and considered.

Objectors Rupert Buckingham (Baker Street Area Neighbourhood Association) and Evelyn Williams (Conservation Area Advisory Committee), and Mohammed Raja and Javeria Raja representing the applicant, attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this application.

Resolved –

(1)           That planning permission for application 201585/FUL be granted, subject to the conditions and informatives as recommended in the original report, with the conditions amended to reflect the recommended conditions submitted to the Committee at its meeting on 1 December 2021 (Minute 79 refers), and with an additional informative to specify that any shutters be installed inside the building and not roller shutters outside, as per the requirements of the Conservation Area, and an additional informative to state the requirement to apply for a late night refreshment licence;

(2)           That the litter and waste management plan be agreed in consultation with Ward Councillors;

(3)           That advertising consent for application 201586/ADV be granted, subject to the conditions as recommended in the original report.

(Councillor Rowland declared a prejudicial interest in this Item on the grounds that she lived on Zinzan Street, which joined Oxford Road at the property.  She made a statement to the Committee but took no further part in the debate or decision.)