Change of use from E(g)(i) offices to F1(g) Law Courts, including internal alterations, additional external lift, additional sub-station and landscaping works.

The Committee considered a report on the above application. An update report was tabled at the meeting giving details of further comments received from the Council’s Emergency Planning Team, information on site security and information on acoustic impact, including on a revised acoustic assessment that had been received on 9 September 2025.  An additional condition to secure implementation of the noise mitigation strategy was proposed.

Comments were received and considered.

The Committee requested that officers liaise with the applicant to arrange an appropriately-worded condition to provide for special pre-booked arrangements for public disabled access to the staff disabled parking bays near the building.

Resolved –

(1)       That planning permission for application PL/25/0616 (FUL) be granted, subject to the conditions and informatives as set out in the original report, with the additional condition set out in the update report, and either condition 14 being amended or a new condition being added to require details of how visiting public with disabilities could be allowed to park on site, to be submitted for approval and thereafter implemented;

(2)       That the Assistant Director of Planning, Transport and Public Protection, in consultation with the Chair of the Committee, be authorised to agree details of the proposed car park disabled access condition.

(Councillor Ennis declared a pecuniary interest in this application as he was employed by the applicant.  He left the meeting and took no part in the debate or decision.)