Site address:                  Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG

Proposal:                         Demolition of Lodge buildings, garden works buildings, existing hard landscaping on Ramparts and internal elements. Refurbishment, alteration and extension of existing building, including external glazing over internal courtyards, insertion of en suite bathrooms and lifts, and extension to existing basement to provide residential, teaching and office accommodation with associated structural works. Erection of replacement Lodges and single storey garden room. Creation of underground accommodation and sunken courtyard within the grounds (east) to provide additional residential en suite bedrooms. Erection of a single storey glazed pavilion building (with new basement) within the grounds (west) to provide additional teaching and office accommodation. Erection of new gardeners outbuildings. New landscaping of garden and Ramparts; removal and re-instatement of boundary walls; removal and reinstatement of front ramps; and provision of cycle parking. (Amended description) (Additional and amended plans and supporting information). 

Recommendation:

The West Area Planning Committee is recommended to:

1.     approve the application for the reasons given in the report and subject to the required conditions set out in section 12 of the report and grant listed building consent.

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

The Committee considered an application (20/00167/LBC) for planning permission forthe demolition of Lodge buildings, garden works buildings, existing hard landscaping on Ramparts and internal elements. Refurbishment, alteration and extension of existing building, including external glazing over internal courtyards, insertion of ensuite bathrooms and lifts, and extension to existing basement to provide residential, teaching and office accommodation with associated structural works. Erection of replacement Lodges and single storey garden room. Creation of underground accommodation and sunken courtyard within the grounds (east) to provide additional residential en suite bedrooms. Erection of a single storey glazed pavilion building (with new basement) within the grounds (west) to provide additional teaching and office accommodation. Erection of new gardeners outbuildings. New landscaping of garden and Ramparts; removal and re-instatement of boundary walls; removal and reinstatement of front ramps; and provision of cycle parking.

The officer presentation and Committee discussion of this application for listed building consent was taken as part of the previous item.

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, as amended to include a legal agreement, 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 required conditions and 2 informatives set out in section 12 of the report and grant listed building consent subject to:

·       the satisfactory completion of a legal agreement under section.106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and other enabling powers to secure the planning obligations set out in the set out in the recommended heads of terms given in the oral presentation; and

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 and to decide whether to refer the discharge of condition 18 to the Committee if Officers in consultation with Historic England consider this to be 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 oral presentation, including refining, adding to, amending and/or deleting the obligations detailed in the heads of terms set out in the oral presentation (including to dovetail with and where appropriate, reinforce the final conditions and informatives to be attached to the listed building consent) as the Head of Planning Services considers reasonably necessary; and

·       complete the section 106 legal agreement referred to above and issue the listed building consent.