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17/03148/FUL: Oxford High School, Belbroughton Road, Oxford, OX2 6XA

Meeting: 21/02/2018 - West Area Planning Committee (Item 67)

67 17/03148/FUL: Oxford High School Belbroughton Road Oxford OX2 6XA pdf icon PDF 271 KB

Site address:                   Oxford High School, Belbroughton Road, OX2 6XA

 

Proposal:                        Proposed demolition of existing Art, Design and Healthcare Building and erection of new building including Sixth Form, Art & Design and Wellbeing facilities.                 

 

Recommendation:

The West Area Planning Committee is recommended to:

(a)      approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the required planning conditions set out in section 12 of this report and grant planning permission;

 

(b)      agree to delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Sustainable Development and Regulatory Services to:

1. finalise the recommended conditions as set out in this report including such refinements, amendments, additions and/or deletions as the Head of Planning, Sustainable Development and Regulatory Services considers reasonably necessary;

2. Issue the planning permission.

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application (17/03148/FUL) for planning permission for the proposed demolition of existing Art, Design and Healthcare Building and erection of new building including Sixth Form, Art & Design and Wellbeing facilities.

 

The Planning Officer presented the report and made the following verbal updates:

·         Condition 12 requires the development to be carried out in accordance with the details set out in the Natural Resource Impact Assessment. In fact, further details are needed to ensure the development meets policy requirements for on-site renewables, taking into consideration both regulated and unregulated energy. The condition therefore will be reworded to require additional information.

·         An additional condition is recommended to secure a travel plan. Although there is no change to staff or student numbers, nor a change in car parking space numbers, as part of wider sustainability objectives, a travel plan is required that would set out strategies to discourage and reduce car use over time.

·         A condition is required to secure community uses of facilities, referred to in the officer report.

 

David Hughes (local resident) spoke against the application. 

 

Philip Hills (Headmaster), Richard Alonso (Architect) and Susie Byrne (Planning Consultant) spoke in favour of the application.

 

The Committee asked questions of the officers and public speakers about the details of the application.

 

The Committee noted the concerns about overlooking raised by the local resident but was satisfied that these concerns would be addressed by the applicant’s proposals to apply privacy film to the windows on the southern stairwell and that this would be addressed by condition.

 

The Committee asked that the planning officers check the detail of Condition 10 to ensure that it provided for wheel washing for construction vehicles.  This was especially important in view of the volume of cyclists using the cycle paths in the vicinity of the application site.

 

In reaching its decision, the Committee considered all the information put before it noting that the proposed design of the building and the landscape strategy have evolved positively through a period of pre-application advice including a review by the Oxford Design Review Panel.

 

The Committee agreed with the officer’s conclusion that the application was a sympathetic response to the site’s constraints and assets, including the conservation area, southern tree belt, as well as to the school’s needs.

 

On being put to the vote the Committee agreed with the officer recommendation subject to the rewording of Condition 12 and the inclusion of two further conditions:

1.     Submission of a Travel Plan intended to promote a reduction in car use

2.     To secure community use of the sixth form social and lecture space consistent with Policy CS16

 

The West Area Planning Committee resolved to:

(a)            approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the 19 required planning conditions set out in section 12 of the report and the addition of two further conditions as detailed above and grant planning permission; and

(b)            Delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Sustainable Development and Regulatory Services to:

1.     finalise  ...  view the full minutes text for item 67