Site address:         Frewin Quad, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DH

Proposal:              Demolition of existing music practice rooms, stone wall and garden store; refurbishment of Grade II* Listed Building and associated works and landscaping; and the erection of building with basement, landscape and associated works, to provide additional bedspaces and social/study spaces for a C2 residential institution.             

Recommendation:

The West Area Planning Committee is recommended to:

1.     Approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the prior completion of an agreement made pursuant to section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling powers to secure the planning obligations which are referred to the report and subject to the required planning conditions set out in section 12 of the report and grant planning permission.

2.     Agree to delegate authority to the Head of Planning Services to:

·       Finalise the recommended conditions as set out in the report including such refinements, amendments, additions and/or deletions as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary;

·       finalise the recommended legal agreement under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling powers as set out in this report, including refining, adding to, amending and/or deleting the obligations detailed in the heads of terms set out in the report (including to dovetail with and where appropriate, reinforce the final conditions and informatives to be attached to the planning permission) as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary; and

·       Complete the section 106 legal agreement referred to above and issue the planning permission.

The Committee considered an application (19/02601/FUL) for planning permission for the demolition of the existing music practice rooms, stone wall and garden store; refurbishment of Grade II* Listed Building and associated works and landscaping; and the erection of building with basement, landscape and associated works, to provide additional bedspaces and social/study spaces for a C2 residential institution.     

The Planning Officer and Senior Conservation Officer gave a combined presentation for the FUL and LBC applications  which included the following verbal update:

·         The first floor plan had been duplicated in the published presentation and incorrectly labelled second floor plan. This had been corrected in the presentation before the Committee as there were no works proposed to the second floor as part of the proposed scheme.

Philip Parker, Bursar of Brasenose spoke in favour of the application and Tim Lee (architect) and Luke Slattery (agents) were present to respond to questions from the Committee.

The Committee considered that the proposals before them were an excellent and sensitive approach for the development of the application site to the benefit of both the College and the City. 

The Committee recorded its thanks to the officers for an excellent report setting out the details of a complex scheme.

In reaching its decision, the Committee considered all the information put before it.

After debate and on being proposed, seconded and put to the vote, the Committee agreed with the officer’s recommendation to approve the application.

The West Area Planning Committee resolved to:

1. Approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the prior completion of an agreement made pursuant to section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling powers to secure the planning obligations which were referred to in the report and subject to the required planning conditions set out in section 12 of the report and grant planning permission.

2.    delegate authority to the Head of Planning Services to:

·         finalise the recommended conditions as set out in the report including such refinements, amendments, additions and/or deletions as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary;

·         finalise the recommended legal agreement under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling powers as set out in the report, including refining, adding to, amending and/or deleting the obligations detailed in the heads of terms set out in the report (including to dovetail with and where appropriate, reinforce the final conditions and informatives to be attached to the planning permission) as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary; and

·         Complete the section 106 legal agreement referred to above and issue the planning permission.