The Head of City Development had submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended) which detailed an application for the demolition of 4 existing buildings (including Richards, Waco and Badenoch Buildings).  Erection of 2 medical research buildings on 3 floors plus basement to accommodate Nuffield Department of Medicine and Kennedy Institute, to include laboratories, offices, stores, workshops and ancillary spaces.  Provision of hard and soft landscaping, cycle parking and rearrangement of car parking.  (amended plans).

Councillor David Rundle declared a personal interest as he was a member of the University of Oxford.

The Committee agreed to support the planning application in principle subject to Officers investigating a new cycle route on the applications site/Old Road and a renegotiated S.106 agreement securing additional financial contributions towards traffic management requirement in the vicinity of the land and to delegate the issuing of the Notice of Planning Permission to Officers subject to the following conditions on its completion:

(1)       Development begun within time limit

(2)       Development in accordance with approved plans

(3)       Samples

(4)       Landscape plan required

(5)       Landscape carry out after completion

(6)       Landscape hard surface design – tree roots

(7)       Landscape underground services – tree roots

(8)       Tree protection Plan (TPP) 1

(9)       Arboricultural Method Statement (AMS) 1

(10)     Arch – Implementation of programme

(11)     Contamination

(12)     Ecology

(13)     Public Art – Scheme details and timetable

(14)     FRA

(15)     SUDS detailed scheme required

(16)     Construction Traffic Management Plan

(17)     Cycle parking – details, secured and covered

(18)     Travel plan – revised details

(19)     Noise – Mechanical plant and attenuation

(20)     Lighting – details of external lighting

(21)     Divinity Road and Magdalen Road, Controlled Parking Zone to be in place prior to occupation of the development