Proposal:                   Part-demolition of existing retail units, car park and service areas, demolition and rebuild of car park ramp, and construction of a residential-led, mixed-use development fronting Queens Walk and Dusseldorf Way, including all necessary enabling and alteration works required.

Recommendation:   Grant subject to legal agreement

Part-demolition of existing retail units, car park and service areas, demolition and rebuild of car park ramp, and construction of a residential-led, mixed-use development fronting Queens Walk and Dusseldorf Way, including all necessary enabling and alteration works required.

The Committee considered a report on the above application.  An update report was tabled at the meeting which made amendments to the proposed Heads of Terms of the s106 legal agreement relating to on-site affordable housing, medical facility, heat network and energy, rooftop car park improvement scheme and clarification of the maximum permitted number of dwellings.  The update report also set out a number of corrections and clarifications to the original report.  A verbal update was given at the meeting to make a minor amendment to the recommendation regarding the heat network.

Comments and objections were received and considered.

Objector Anthony Ihringer, representing the Baker Street Area Neighbourhood Association, Jonathan Walton, on behalf of the applicant, and Ward Councillor Mohammed Ayub, attended the meeting and addressed the Committee on this application.

Resolved –

That consideration of application PL/24/0173 (FUL) be deferred, in order to seek further information on matters raised by the Committee including the possibility of increased on-site affordable housing provision, the approach to open space including play areas, the quality of the proposed public realm, car parking proposals including disabled and EV charging spaces, the wording of affordable housing tenant nomination rights, the proposed study into a feasibility scheme for bridging and/or environmental improvements over the IDR, and the amenity and outlook of the proposed north-facing units.