Agenda and minutes

Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

41.

Apologies for absence and substitutions

Minutes:

None

42.

Declarations of interest

Minutes:

Minute 46: Councillor Wilkinson declared that she had made no representations on this application and had no predetermined view on this.

 

Minute 47: Councillor Henwood declared that he was the applicant on behalf of the parish council and could therefore not take part in the decision. He would leave the room for this item.

 

 

43.

16/01578/RES: Plot 3130, John Smith Drive pdf icon PDF 135 KB

Site Address: Plot 3130 John Smith Drive, Oxford Business Park.

 

Proposal: Erection of a detached office building for business use (Class B1), with associated access, landscaping and services infrastructure. Approval of reserved matters approved under planning permission 12/01424/EXT for access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale.

 

Officer recommendation: to grant planning permission with the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Material Samples.

4.     Landscape plan required.

5.     Landscape carry out by completion.

6.     Landscape survey before site works.

7.     Tree Protection Plan (TPP) 1.

8.     Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS) 1.

9.     Construction Traffic Management Plan.

10.  Parking Strategy.

11.  Full Travel Plan.

12.  Restriction on use of car parking area.

13.  Parking and Access Layout Plan.

14.  Drainage Strategy.

15.  Recommendations of Ecological Assessment.

16.  Bat and Bird Boxes.

17.  Energy Strategy Recommendations.

18.  Details of Photovoltaic Array.

19.  Contaminated Land Risk Assessment.

20.  Unexpected Contamination Watching Brief.

21.  Details of cycle storage.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the erection of a detached office building for business use (Class B1) (with associated access, landscaping and services infrastructure) and approval of reserved matters approved under planning permission 12/01424/EXT (for access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) at Plot 3130 John Smith Drive, Oxford Business Park.

 

Robin Moxon and Dan Williams, representing the applicant, came to the table to answer questions from the committee.

 

The Committee resolved to grant planning permission for application 16/01578/RES with the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Material Samples.

4.     Landscape plan required.

5.     Landscape carry out by completion.

6.     Landscape survey before site works.

7.     Tree Protection Plan (TPP) 1.

8.     Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS) 1.

9.     Construction Traffic Management Plan.

10.  Parking Strategy.

11.  Full Travel Plan.

12.  Restriction on use of car parking area.

13.  Parking and Access Layout Plan.

14.  Drainage Strategy.

15.  Recommendations of Ecological Assessment.

16.  Bat and Bird Boxes.

17.  Energy Strategy Recommendations.

18.  Details of Photovoltaic Array.

19.  Contaminated Land Risk Assessment.

20.  Unexpected Contamination Watching Brief.

21.  Details of cycle storage.

 

44.

15/03466/FUL: Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, Churchill Hospital, Old Road pdf icon PDF 108 KB

Site Address: Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility Churchill Hospital Old Road Headington

 

Proposal: Erection of two storey extension with basement to the Clinical Bio-Manufacturing Facility and provision of new substation (including additional information).

           

Officer recommendation: to grant planning permission with the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Materials – matching.

4.     Archaeology - Implementation of programme of investigation.

5.     Staff travel to work and parking.

6.     Construction Travel Plan.      

7.     Drainage scheme.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the erection of a two storey extension with basement to the Clinical Bio-Manufacturing Facility and provision of new substation (including additional information) at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, Churchill Hospital, Old Road Headington.

 

Dawn Brodie, representing the applicant, came to the table to answer questions from the committee.

           

The Committee resolved to grant planning permission for application 15/03466/FUL with the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Materials – matching.

4.     Archaeology - Implementation of programme of investigation.

5.     Staff travel to work and parking.

6.     Construction Travel Plan.      

7.     Drainage scheme.

45.

16/01726/FUL: Unit 5, Ashville Way pdf icon PDF 556 KB

Site Address: Unit 5, Ashville Way, Oxford

 

Proposal: Change of use from Storage and Distribution (Use Class B8) to Assemble and Leisure (Use Class D2) on ground floor and Offices (Use Class B1a) on first floor. Provision of additional car parking, bin and cycle store.

 

Officer recommendation: to refuse planning permission for the following reasons:

 

The proposed development would result in the loss of a key protected employment site, which would be harmful to the range of job opportunities in the city and contrary to Policy CS28 of the Oxford Core Strategy 2026.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the change of use from ‘Storage and Distribution’ (Use Class B8) to ‘Assemble and Leisure’ (Use Class D2) on ground floor and ‘Offices’ (Use Class B1a) on first floor, with provision of additional car parking, bin and cycle store at Unit 5, Ashville Way, Oxford.

 

Damien Roscoe, local business owner, spoke against the application, saying that the unit could be retained for its allocated business use and rented by his business.

 

Councillor Smith, portfolio holder, Michael Crofton-Briggs, the agent, and Hazel Walsh, the club chairman, spoke in support of the application.

 

Notwithstanding the officer’s recommendation for refusal, the Committee considered that the planning permission should be granted. Permanent premises for the gymnastics club would meet the Council’s wider policy aims of increasing leisure activities and encouraging young people to be active, and would provide employment although not at skill levels commensurate with B8 uses. While the unit was suited to B8 uses the proposed uses were satisfactory and could be accommodated on the site. The Committee were of the view that, in meeting the wider policy aims of the Council and the Local Plan, the benefits of permitting the change of use specified in the application outweighed the loss of the B8 use of unit.

In this specific case given the benefits the club provided to the community, the weight given to policy CS21 should be greater than that for policy CS28 and permission should be granted. Concerns over accessibility and transport could be addressed by condition.

They considered that in view of the specific circumstances of the application the permission should be limited to the gymnastics club. 

 

The Committee resolved to grant planning permission for application 16/01726/FUL subject to the following conditions:

 

ADD CONDITIONS

 

46.

16/01213/FUL: 8 Jersey Road, OX4 4RT pdf icon PDF 433 KB

Site Address: 8 Jersey Road, Oxford.

 

Proposal: The retention of 1No. 1-bedroom flat, and provision of 2No. 2-bedroom flat extending into the existing vacant extension, and provision of amenity space, vehicular and cycle parking, landscaping, and other associated works. (Amended Plans, Amended Description).

           

 

Officer recommendation:  to grant planning permission withr the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Submission of elevations to stores.

4.     Car parking and vision splays.

5.     Bin storage - hard surface access.

6.     Sustainable drainage.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for the retention of one 1-bedroom flat, and provision of two 2-bedroom flats extending into the existing vacant extension, and provision of amenity space, vehicular and cycle parking, landscaping, and other associated works. (Amended Plans, Amended Description) at 8 Jersey Road, Oxford.

 

The Planning Officer recommended and the Committee accepted an additional condition to require details of cycle parking and storage to be agreed.

 

Jaques Lauruol, local resident, spoke objecting to the application.

 

Ian Summerfield, the agent for the applicant, spoke in support of the application.

 

The Committee considered the impact of the proposals on the immediate neighbourhood and were of the view that conditions, provided these were properly implemented and compliance enforced, could appropriately control the impact of the development.

 

The Committee resolved to grant planning permission for application 16/01213/FUL with the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

3.     Submission of elevations to stores.

4.     Car parking and vision splays.

5.     Cycle parking details.

6.     Bin storage - hard surface access.

7.     Sustainable drainage.

 

47.

16/01472/FUL: Installation of public artwork and seating, Land at Cowley Road and Newman Road, OX4 3TP pdf icon PDF 81 KB

Site Address: Land at the Junction of Cowley Road and Newman Road.

 

Proposal: Installation of public artwork and seating.

           

Officer recommendation: to approve the application, subject to conditions

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.          

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.        

3.     Materials as proposed.

4.     Maintenance plan.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Councillor Henwood left the room for the duration of this item and took no part in the debate or decision.

 

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the installation of public artwork and seating on land at the junction of Cowley Road and Newman Road.

           

The Committee resolved to approve application 16/01472/FUL, subject to the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.          

2.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.        

3.     Materials as proposed.

4.     Maintenance plan.

 

48.

16/01739/CT3: Florence Park, Rymers Lane pdf icon PDF 71 KB

Site Address: Florence Park, Rymers Lane.

 

Proposal: Installation of floodlighting to tennis courts.

 

Officer recommendation: to approve the application subject to the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Materials as specified - LED Floodlighting, 29.06.2016 (D A S).

3.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the installation of floodlighting to tennis courts at Florence Park, Rymers Lane.

 

The Planning Officer recommended and the Committee agreed an additional condition to control the hours of operation of the floodlights.

 

The Committee were concerned that if these were motion sensitive lights they may prove distracting to motorists. They delegated the grant of permission to officers, subject to them being satisfied and the Highways Authority confirming that the detailed design of the lights would not cause a distraction to drivers on the adjacent road.

 

The Committee resolved to delegate the granting of planning permission for application 16/01739/CT3 to officers, subject to the design of the lights being confirmed as not causing a distraction to motorists, and subject to the following conditions:

 

1.     Development begun within time limit.

2.     Materials as specified - LED Floodlighting, 29.06.2016 (D A S).

3.     Develop in accordance with approved plans.

 

49.

Minutes pdf icon PDF 157 KB

Recommendation: That the minutes of the meeting held on 7 September 2016 are approved as a true and accurate record.

 

Minutes:

The Committee resolved to approve the minutes of the meeting held on 7 September 2016 as a true and accurate record.

50.

Forthcoming applications

Items for consideration by the committee at future meetings are listed for information. They are not for discussion at this meeting. This list is not complete and applications may be added or removed.

 

·         William Morris Close, OX4 2JX: 16/00797/OUT 

·         Site Of Former Shelley Arms 114 Cricket Road: 16/00679/FUL 

·         16/01973/FUL: Canterbury House, 393 Cowley Road, OX4 2BS 

·         16/02230/FUL and 16/02231/LBC Land Adjacent St George's, 31 Cowley Road, Littlemore OX4 4LE 

·         16/02112/FUL: 16 Glebelands, Oxford, OX3 7EN (Fairview Inn) 

·         16/02017/FUL: 14 Holyoake Road, Oxford, OX3 8AE 

·         16/01564/FUL: 232 Marston Road, OX3 0EJ 

·         16/00824/FUL: 2 Mortimer Drive 

·         16/01752/FUL: Land At Swan Motor Centre And To The East Between Towns Road, Oxford 

·         16/01785/OUT: 23 and 25 Spring Lane, Littlemore, OX4 6LE 

·         16/01934/RES: Jack Russell, 21 Salford Road, OX3 0RX 

·         16/02002/RES: Land West Of Barton North Of A40 And South Of Bayswater Brook, Northern By-Pass Road, Wolvercote, OX3 9SD 

·         16/01498/FUL: 18 Gorse Leas 

·         139 Oxford Road, Old Marston OX3 0RB: 16/01008/FUL 

·         16 Clive Road: 15/03342/FUL 

·         16/02184/FUL:  118-120 Bulan Road 

·         16/02175/FUL and 16/02176/LBC:  26 Mill Lane, Iffley, OX4 4EJ 

·         16/01945/FUL: Plot 12, Edmund Halley Road, Oxford 

·         16/01225/FUL: Temple Cowley Pools, Temple Road, OX4 2EZ 

·         16/01049/FUL: 474 Cowley Road, OX4 2DP 

·         Northway and Marston Flood Alleviation Scheme: 16/02224/VAR (and any further applications)

 

Minutes:

The Committee noted the list of forthcoming applications.

51.

Dates of future meetings

The Committee will meet at 6.00pm on the following dates:

 

2 Nov 2016

7 Dec 2016

11 Jan 2017

8 Feb 2017

8 Mar 2017

5 Apr 2017

10 May 2017

 

Minutes:

The Committee noted the dates.