Proposal                   Demolition and residential redevelopment to provide three buildings comprising 120 residential units (Use Class C3), along with car parking, cycle parking, servicing bay and associated landscaping, amenity space, plant and refuse areas, and access arrangements. 

Recommendation  Application Permitted

Demolition and residential redevelopment to provide three buildings comprising 120 residential units (Use Class C3), along with car parking, cycle parking, servicing bay and associated landscaping, amenity space, plant and refuse areas, and access arrangements.

The Committee considered a report on the above application.  An update report was tabled at the meeting which set out clarifications on separation between buildings and on the impact on the setting of listed buildings and heritage assets including comments from the Conservation Officer.

Comments and objections were received and considered.

Objector Evelyn Williams, and David Walters, Sophie Steed and Gareth Fox on behalf of the applicant, attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this application.

Resolved:

(1)       That the application be refused;

(2)       That the Assistant Director of Planning, Transport and Public Protection Services be authorised to finalise the reasons for refusal, to include the following issues raised by the Committee: insufficient privacy distance between windows and balconies which would result in overlooking and loss of privacy for future occupiers; the excessive scale and the siting and layout of the proposed development which would result in harm to the setting of the adjacent listed building at 104 Oxford Road and the setting of the Castle Hill/ Russell St/Oxford Road Conservation Area; the design of the development and its proximity to noise sources at Face Bar and The Butler which would result in inadequate standards of amenity for future occupiers and introduce an unmitigated agent of change; failure to provide an adequate mix of dwelling sizes and failure to make adequate provision towards Affordable Housing, an employment and skills training plan, a carbon offset contribution, an off-site public realm contribution and relevant highway improvements and contribution.