PLANNING COMMITTEE Date: 4Th November 2008
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Agenda Item No: 6 Wolverhampton City Council OPEN DECISION ITEM Committee / Panel PLANNING COMMITTEE Date: 4th November 2008 Originating Service Group(s) REGENERATION AND ENVIRONMENT Contact Officer(s) Stephen Alexander (Head of Development Control) Telephone Number(s) (01902) 555610 Title/Subject Matter PLANNING APPLICATIONS Recommendation That Members determine the submitted applications according to the recommendation made in respect of each one. PLANNING COMMITTEE (4th November 2008) REFERENCE SITE ADDRESS PAGE NO 08/01148/FUL Crown Inn Blakenhall Page 5 10 Cartwright Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV2 3BT Application Type Minor Retail 08/00351/FUL 16 Copthorne Road Graiseley Page 12 Wolverhampton West Midlands WV3 0AB Application Type Householder - Article 4 08/01081/OUT Fordhouses Cricket Ground Bushbury North Page 16 Taunton Avenue Wolverhampton West Midlands WV10 6PW Application Type Major Dwellings 07/01764/OUT Former IMI Sports Ground Bushbury North Page 24 Wobaston Road Wolverhampton West Midlands Application Type Major General Industry 08/01080/FUL Land Between Addison Place Bilston East Page 35 And Lunt Road Boswell Road Wolverhampton West Midlands Application Type Major Dwellings 2 08/00665/DWF Wolverhampton City Council St Peter's Page 41 & Town Hall And Magistrates 08/00690/LBC Court North Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 1RE Application Type Minor Development & Listed Building Consent (alter-extend) 08/00911/FUL Bilston Town Bowling Club Bilston North Page 45 Villiers Avenue Wolverhampton West Midlands WV14 6AU Application Type Minor Dwellings 08/00355/FUL 20 Lawley Road Ettingshall Page 53 Wolverhampton West Midlands WV14 0NB Application Type Minor Dwellings 08/00016/FUL Industrial Units Bounded By Blakenhall Page 58 Thomas Street Pountney Street Bell Place Dobbs Street Wolverhampton West Midlands Application Type Minor All Other Development 08/00904/FUL Three Pines Tettenhall Page 68 28 Grove Lane Wightwick Wolverhampton West Midlands WV6 8NJ Application Type Minor Dwellings 3 08/01130/FUL 56 Wergs Road Tettenhall Regis Page 74 Wolverhampton West Midlands WV6 8TD Application Type Change of use 4 PLANNING COMMITTEE - 04-Nov-08 APP NO: 08/01148/FUL WARD: Blakenhall DATE: 23-Sep-08 TARGET DATE: 18-Nov-08 RECEIVED: 10.09.2008 APP TYPE: Full Application SITE: Crown Inn, 10 Cartwright Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands PROPOSAL: Proposed function room and ground floor extensions APPLICANT: AGENT: Mr Mangoo Mal Sueshire Services Crown Inn 46 Lingfield Drive 10 Cartwright Street Great Wyrley Parkfield Walsall Wolverhampton WS6 6LS West Midlands WV2 3BT COMMITTEE REPORT: 1. Site Description 1.1 The site is located approximately 600m south of Wolverhampton City Centre and is approximately 0.09Ha in area. It comprises of land located at the corner of Cartwright Street, Birmingham New Road and Grove Street. 1.2 The site is occupied by The Crown Inn public house and its car parking area which is adjacent to another public house: ‘The Foresters’. The Crown Inn parking area is shared with ‘The Foresters’ car park. 1.3 The application site is located in a Defined Business Area in accordance with Wolverhampton’s Unitary Development Plan and it is located in between two of the main arterial routes into Wolverhampton: Birmingham Road and Dudley Road. 1.4 The existing building faces onto Cartwright Street. Advertisement hoardings are located immediately adjacent to the rear of the application site facing onto Grove Street. According to the applicant, the land where the advertisement hoards are sited belongs to Wolverhampton City Council. 1.5 The plot has an irregular shape, with a 38m wide frontage onto Cartwright Street and 20m wide rear wall facing onto Grove Street. 2. Application details 2.1 This planning application is for two large extensions onto the existing pub which would include an additional bar facility and a lounge area to be used as a function room. Access to the function room would be gained through the car parking area and through the existing public house. 2.2 The proposed extensions would be located at the north and north-west sides of the existing building. 5 2.3 The extension would be of single storey and would comprise a bar area, large toilet area and a function room. The proposed toilets and function room would occupy the whole of the rear/private amenity space of the existing public house. 2.4 The car parking area would accommodate 13 parking spaces including one disabled. 2.5 Amended plans showing proposed external materials and a new Design and Access Statement (D&A) were submitted on the 3rd October 2008. 2.6 In accordance with the new D&A the footprint of the existing building is 184sqm. The area for the proposed extension would be 278sqm. 2.7 The proposed external materials include: • Facing brick work • Grey/black asphalted fined roof 3. Planning History 3.1 Application No. 07/00929/FUL for a function room and ground floor extensions. The application was withdrawn on the 17.01.2008, concerns were raised relating to design, planning policy and transportation issues. 3.2 A/C/1700/83 for Car Park. Granted, dated 22.07.1983. 4. Constraints 4.1 Policy: Defined Business Area 4.2 Policy: Strategic Regeneration Area 5. Relevant policies 5.1 National Policies PPS1 - Delivering Sustainable Development 5.2 UDP Policies D1 - Design Quality D2 - Design Statement D3 - Urban Structure D4 - Urban Grain D5 - Public Realm Public Open Private Space D6 - Townscape and Landscape D7 - Scale - Height D8 - Scale - Massing D9 - Appearance D10 - Community Safety D11 - Access for People with Disabilities part C3 - Community Meeting Places B4 - Expansion of Existing Businesses B5 - Design Standards for Employment Sites B9 – Defined Business Area AM1 - Access, Motability and New Development 6 AM12 - Parking and Servicing Provision AM14 - Minimising the Effect of Traffic on Com. AM15 - Road Safety and Personal Security B13 – Business Tourism, Hotel and Conference Facilities SH2 – Centre Uses SH3 – Need and the Sequential Approach SH4 – Integration of Development into Centres 6. Publicity and Neighbour notification 6.1 A petition in support of the planning application, with 260 signatures was submitted with the application. 7. Consultees 7.1 Environmental Services – the following is recommended: • The existing plans do not indicate the small kitchen and BBQ room currently in existence located further in front of the current toilet facilities. • The attached access statement does not indicate the proposed numbers intending to use the establishment and in particular the function room. • The ventilation system currently installed may not be sufficient for the intended use of the ‘new’ kitchen. A system for the effective control of cooking odours, to be designed and approved by competent person. A copy of the scheme for odour control should be submitted to Food and Environmental Safety. • Plans currently submitted do not indicate facilities/equipment to be incorporated. • Refuse store details not provided. • No indication of opening hours in the application. • The information regarding capacity and seating provisions is not available in the application to determine the adequacy of catering facilities and sanitary accommodation. 7.2 Transportation Officer – Recommend refusal for the following reasons: • Inappropriate level of parking provision for the proposed development/use, which is likely to lead to inappropriate on-street parking on Cartwright Street and nearby roads • Unacceptable parking layout which would make parking of vehicles impractical/difficult • Unacceptable disabled bay dimensions • Unacceptably high boundary treatments which would affect visibility for vehicles exiting the site onto Cartwright Street • Lack of motorcycle and cycle parking provision 7.3 Building Control – Comments as follows: • Fire-hydrant and additional hydrants to be provided. • Insufficient details have been provided with regards to disabled people access. 7 8. Appraisal 8.1 The following key issues are: • Principle of the development • Layout and Siting • Design & appearance • Parking Principle of the development 8.2 The application site is located in a Defined Business Area out side the Town Centre as defined on the Inset of the UDP. Due to the scale of the function room it can not be considered to be ‘ancillary’ to the public house. It is also considered that due to the scale, the function room has the ability to cater for a larger catchment that would be provided by a nearby local centre or possibly from a City Centre location. 8.3 No information has been submitted to establish how many people the function room will cater for and does not demonstrate that there are no alternative locations within the nearby retail centres which would be of a scale that would cater for this scale of function room as specified on policy SH3 of the UDP. 8.4 The proposed development would involve the loss of the existing rear open ‘beer garden’ to the public house. 8.5 Due to lack of information, loss of open space at rear and scale of the proposed development it is considered that the proposed development is not acceptable in principle and contrary to policies D1, B13, SH2, SH3, SH4 and B9 of the Wolverhampton’s UDP. Design & Appearance 8.6 The design of the proposed extension is very poor with no particular architectural character. Elevation details are bland and do not address the street scene. 8.7 The applicant argues that the elevations would not be visible from the street scene due to the presence of a row of leylandi trees to the Grove Street elevation and the public house on the Cartwright Street elevation. However, this is not an excuse for very poor design and the scheme should be an opportunity to improve the street scene onto Grove Street by the removal of the leylandi trees and the large advertisements boards presently on the boundary. 8.8 The proposed development has only three small windows on the west elevation and a small duo-pitched entrance on the south elevation.