Agenda item

To receive the report of the Chief Planning Officer for a Position Statement for the construction of a new teaching block including landscaping, access improvements and other associated works at Cloberry Street, Woodhouse, Leeds.

(Report Attached)

With reference to the meetings of 12^th July 2018 and the decision to defer consideration of the application to allow a fundamental rethink of the proposals to be carried out.

The Chief Planning Officer now submitted a report which set out proposals for revised massing and design; the approach to car parking and highway alterations; the proposed landscaping and the relationship to the existing green space in order to inform a final report.

Site photographs and plans were displayed and referred to throughout the discussion of the application.

Planning Officers together with the applicant’s representatives addressed the Panel, speaking in detail about the proposal and highlighted the following:

·  Site location/ context

·  The University’s aspiration for an expansion to the Business School

·  The evolution of the proposal

·  An explanation as to why the proposal was proceeding ahead of the temporary Estate Building site

·  Highway proposals/ extent of the adopted highway

·  Proposed pedestrian space/ new public space/ green space

·  Response to Member concerns about scale, height and the position of the building

·  Massing/ dominance within the structure

·  Materials: artificial stone/brick

Members raised the following questions:

·  Was the financial contribution to deliver the parking permit scheme adequate 

·  How many residents lived on Lyddon Terrace

·  Lyddon Terrace was a well preserved street, could residents parking be restricted/ removed

·  Could resident parking on Lyddon Terrace be relocated to the rear of their properties (Cromer Place)

In responding to the issues raised, the applicant’s representative and council officers said:

·  Officers confirmed that three resident lived on Lyddon Terrace

·  The Highway’s Officer said the intention was to control residential parking via a permit scheme and time limit other forms of parking within the immediate streets that were not currently subject to parking restrictions. The level of contribution was considered adequate.

·  Members were informed that Cromer Place was a narrow street and not suitable for parking

In offering comments Members raised the following issues:

·  Members welcomed the revised scheme

·  The applicant had listened to the Panel’s concerns and had responded positively

·  Some Members remained of the view that the Estates Building could be delivered in-conjunction with the expansion of the Business School

·  Could more of the green space be retained

·  Members were supportive of a suggestion to defer and delegate determination of the application to the Chief Planning Officer for approval

In summing up the Chair thanked all parties for their attendance and contributions. He suggested that the earlier concerns raised by Members had been positively responded to and Members now appeared to be supportive of the application.

RESOLVED – That the application be deferred and delegated to the Chief Planning Officer for approval subject to the conditions set out in the submitted report (and any others which he might consider appropriate), and the completion of a Section 106 agreement to include the following obligation:

·  A financial contribution towards the deliver a resident parking permit scheme £20,000 

In the event of the Section 106 Agreement having not been completed within 3 months of the resolution to grant planning permission, the final determination of the application shall be delegated to the Chief Planning Officer.