Site address:                  75 Botley Road, Oxford, OX2 0EZ

Proposal:                        Change of use of garden outbuilding to office (Use Class E (g)).

Reason at Committee:    This application is before the committee because it has been called in by Councillors Cook, Pressel, Kennedy, Tanner, Lygo and Fry

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 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; and

·       issue the planning permission.

The Committee considered an application for planning permission for the change of use of garden outbuilding to office (Use Class E (g)) at 75 Botley Road, Oxford, OX2 0EZ.

The Planning Officer confirmed that the off-road parking spaces provided for the flats at 75 Botley Road were not tied to use by those flats. He recommended, and the committee agreed, to add a condition to prevent the use of these parking spaces by the users of the office space.

Nik Lyzba (the agent for the applicant) spoke in support of the application.

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

On being proposed, seconded and put to the vote, the Committee agreed with the officer’s recommendation to approve the application with an additional condition to prevent the users of the office space making use of the 2 parking spaces adjacent to the site and associated with the flats.

The West Area Planning Committee resolved to:

1.       approve application 21/00142/FUL for the reasons given in the report and subject to the required planning conditions set out in section 12 of the report, and the additional condition to prevent the users of the office space making use of the 2 parking spaces associated with the flats and grant planning permission.

1.       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

·       issue the planning permission.