Site Address:  John Radcliffe Hospital, Sandfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Proposal:  The expansion of the Emergency Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital through to the provision of a two storey extension to A and E unit and refurbishment of existing space to provide, resuscitation bays, peaditation resuscitation bays, enhanced resuscitation room and isolation room. The provision over ancillary works such as external plant and other associated landscape works including revised land layout and dedicated ambulance parking bays.

Recommendations: East 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 this report and grant planning permission subject to:

·         The provision of an acceptable Air Quality Assessment, which assesses the impact of the development during the construction phase. 

2.    Agree to delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Sustainable Development and Regulatory Services to:

·         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.

The Committee considered an application for planning permission to the expansion of the Emergency Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital through to the provision of a two storey extension to A and E unit and refurbishment of existing space to provide, resuscitation bays, paediatric resuscitation bays, enhanced resuscitation room and isolation room. The provision over ancillary works such as external plant and other associated landscape works including revised land layout and dedicated ambulance parking bays.

The Planning Officer presented the report, he noted that:

The recommendation was subject to the provision of an acceptable Air Quality Assessment, which assesses the impact of the development during the construction phase. Between publication of the agenda and this meeting this has been provided by the applicants and has been checked and deemed satisfactory by the Councils Air Quality Officer. An additional condition would be attached to the consent requiring the submission of a Construction Environmental Management Plan prior to the commencement of development.   

There was no-one registered to speak against the application.

Charmaine Hope, Head of Capital and Architectural Practice, Dr Larry Fitton, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Louise Rawlinson, Interim Divisional head of Nursing and Governance Medicine, Rehabilitation and Cardiac and Craig Merrifield, Senior Project Manager spoke for the application.

On being proposed, seconded and put to the vote, the Committee agreed with the officer recommendation to approve the application noting his update about an additional condition.

East Area Planning Committee resolved 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 this report and grant planning permission subject to:

·         The provision of an acceptable Air Quality Assessment, which assesses the impact of the development during the construction phase.

2.         Agree to delegate authority to the Head of Planning, Sustainable Development and Regulatory Services to:

·         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.