(Public Pack)Agenda Document for Planning Committee, 25/01/2018
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Public Document Pack Planning Committee Agenda To: Councillor Paul Scott (Chair) Councillor Humayun Kabir (Vice-Chair) Councillors Jamie Audsley, Sherwan Chowdhury, Luke Clancy, Bernadette Khan, Jason Perry, Joy Prince, Sue Winborn and Chris Wright Reserve Members: Jeet Bains, Simon Brew, Richard Chatterjee, Pat Clouder, Patsy Cummings, Steve Hollands, Shafi Khan, Maggie Mansell, Manju Shahul-Hameed and Wayne Trakas-Lawlor A meeting of the Planning Committee which you are hereby summoned to attend, will be held on Thursday, 25 January 2018 at 6.30 pm in Council Chamber, Town Hall, Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX JACQUELINE HARRIS-BAKER James Haywood Director of Law and Monitoring Officer 020 8726 6000 x63319 London Borough of Croydon [email protected] Bernard Weatherill House www.croydon.gov.uk/meetings 8 Mint Walk, Croydon CR0 1EA Tuesday, 16 January 2018 Members of the public are welcome to attend this meeting. If you require any assistance, please contact the person detailed above, on the righthand side. To register a request to speak, please either e-mail [email protected] or call James Haywood by 4pm on the Tuesday before the meeting. THIS MEETING WILL BE WEBCAST LIVE - Click on link to view: https://croydon.public-i.tv/core/portal/home N.B This meeting will be paperless. The agenda can be accessed online at www.croydon.gov.uk/meetings 2 AGENDA – PART A 1. Apologies for absence To receive any apologies for absence from any members of the Committee. 2. Minutes of Previous Meeting (Pages 7 - 16) To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 11 January 2018 as an accurate record. 3. Disclosure of Interest In accordance with the Council’s Code of Conduct and the statutory provisions of the Localism Act, Members and co-opted Members of the Council are reminded that it is a requirement to register disclosable pecuniary interests (DPIs) and gifts and hospitality to the value of which exceeds £50 or multiple gifts and/or instances of hospitality with a cumulative value of £50 or more when received from a single donor within a rolling twelve month period. In addition, Members and co-opted Members are reminded that unless their disclosable pecuniary interest is registered on the register of interests or is the subject of a pending notification to the Monitoring Officer, they are required to disclose those disclosable pecuniary interests at the meeting. This should be done by completing the Disclosure of Interest form and handing it to the Democratic Services representative at the start of the meeting. The Chair will then invite Members to make their disclosure orally at the commencement of Agenda item 3. Completed disclosure forms will be provided to the Monitoring Officer for inclusion on the Register of Members’ Interests. 4. Urgent Business (if any) To receive notice of any business not on the agenda which in the opinion of the Chair, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency. 5. Development presentations (Pages 17 - 18) To receive the following presentations on a proposed development: 5.1 17/05999/PRE Crystal Palace Football Club, Whitehorse Lane, South Norwood (Pages 19 - 30) Alterations and extensions to the existing stadium, and in particular to increase seating capacity of the Main Stand by 8,000 additional seats and increase internal floor space beneath the stand by 20,000sqm. Ward: Selhurst 6. Planning applications for decision (Pages 31 - 34) To consider the accompanying reports by the Director of Planning & Strategic Transport: 6.1 17/05701/FUL Shirley High School, Shirley Church Road, CR0 5EF (Pages 35 - 46) Erection of 12 no. 10m high floodlight columns to illuminate existing netball courts. Ward: Heathfield Recommendation: Grant permission 6.2 17/05708/FUL 1A West Hill, South Croydon CR2 0SB (Pages 47 - 60) Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two storey building with accommodation in roof space and basement comprising 7 two bedroom, 1 three bedroom and 1 one bedroom flats: formation of vehicular access and provision of 8 parking spaces, refuse store and bike storage. Ward: Croham Recommendation: Grant permission 6.3 17/04836/FUL Canterbury House, 2-6 Sydenham Road, CR0 9XE (Pages 61 - 190) Demolition of existing buildings and erection of a 34 storey building comprising 232 x one bedroom and 64 x two bedroom flats, provision of communal amenity space, cycle parking, landscaping and associated plant. Ward: Fairfield Recommendation: Refuse permission 7. Items referred by Planning Sub-Committee To consider any item(s) referred by a previous meeting of the Planning Sub-Committee to this Committee for consideration and determination: There are none. 8. Other planning matters (Pages 191 - 192) 4 To consider the accompanying report by the Director of Planning & Strategic Transport: There are none. 9. Exclusion of the Press & Public The following motion is to be moved and seconded where it is proposed to exclude the press and public from the remainder of a meeting: "That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information falling within those paragraphs indicated in Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended." 5 This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 2 Planning Committee Meeting of held on Thursday, 11 January 2018 at 6.30 pm in Council Chamber, Town Hall, Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX MINUTES Present: Councillor Paul Scott (Chair); Councillor Humayun Kabir (Vice-Chair); Councillors Luke Clancy, Jason Perry, Joy Prince, Sue Winborn and Chris Wright Also Councillor Maria Gatland, Lynne Hale, Stephen Mann and Vidhi Mohan Present: Apologies: Councillor Jamie Audsley, Sherwan Chowdhury and Bernadette Khan PART A A1/18 Minutes of Previous Meeting RESOLVED that the minutes of the meetings held on 7 December 2017 and 28 December 2017 be signed as a correct record with the amendment that Councillor Chris Wright gave his apologies for the meeting held on 7 December 2017. A2/18 Disclosure of Interest There were no disclosures of a pecuniary interest not already registered. A3/18 Urgent Business (if any) There was none. A4/18 Development presentations A5/18 5.1 17/06247/PRE Queens Hotel, 122 Church Road, Upper Norwood, SE19 2UG Presentation of a pre-application scheme for the demolition of existing buildings to the centre and rear of the site and the construction of a new spine building, including glazed link to a retained mews building and the erection of a further extension to the south western facing elevation of the existing locally listed building, to create 495 hotel rooms with 207 car parking spaces (including 13 van spaces), the recladding of the 1970’s extension with ground Page 7 floor canopy, the provision of landscaping including 3 spaces for the parking of coaches within the forecourt area. Ward: South Norwood Richard Quelch (GVA), Katie Cairns (Assael Architecture), and Phillip Rust (SDG) attended to give a presentation and respond to Members' questions and issues raised for further consideration prior to submission of a planning application. The main issues raised during the discussion were as follows: Meaningful consultation with residents needed to take place and details of the outcome of the consultation should be shared The reduction in massing was welcomed Careful consideration needed to be given to the materials used and the elevational treatment of the proposed extensions (the east-west spine and the Church Road elevation); simplified but still of exemplar quality Design of the Church Road extensions requires careful consideration to ensure it complements the historic central façade Reduction in proposed number of rooms and increase in parking spaces generally welcomed Transport mode estimates were needed to assess the impact Clarity on how the developer aimed to encourage hotel guests to use the charged car park as opposed to on street car park Some concern over the impact of 5 coach parking spaces proposed within the hotel forecourt Linked to the above issue, statement required on how off-site coach parking would be managed and capacity of available sites needs to be further clarified Overlooking into surrounding properties – some support for the removal of the previously proposed angled windows View that obscured glazing should be avoided if at all possible A6/18 Planning applications for decision A7/18 17/03953/FUL Thanet House, Coombe Road Alterations to roof, erection of dormer extensions in rear roof slopes and installation of roof-lights to front roof slopes and use of fourth floor (roof- space) as 7x1 bedroom flats, provision of associated refuse and cycle storage. Ward: Fairfield Following the officers’ presentation, Committee Members asked questions on the impact on Thanet Place as it was a small cul-de-sac. Officers confirmed that residents within Thanet House had submitted an asbestos report, however the control and removal of asbestos fell under separate legislation. It Page 8 was recommended that a condition be added that required the developer to submit proposals on how to remove the asbestos. Members queried whether there would be any additional amenity space on the site and were informed that no additional space was proposed. The site was within an area where it was proposed more flats be built. Jan Kool and Ragesh Khahria, speaking in objection, raised the following points: The scheme failed to deliver