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Public Document Pack Planning and Transportation Committee Date: TUESDAY, 17 SEPTEMBE R 2013 Time: 11.00am Venue: LIVERY HALL - GUILDHALL Members: Deputy Michael Welbank Gregory Jones QC (Chairman) Deputy Henry Jones Oliver Lodge (Deputy Chairman) Deputy Keith Knowles Randall Anderson Alderman Professor Michael Alex Bain-Stewart Paul Martinelli David Bradshaw Brian Mooney Deputy John Chapman Sylvia Moys Dennis Cotgrove Deputy John Owen-Ward Revd Dr Martin Dudley Alderman Dr Andrew Parmley Peter Dunphy Ann Pembroke Sophie Fernandes Deputy Henry Pollard John Fletcher Chris Punter Marianne Fredericks Jeremy Simons Deputy Bill Fraser Tom Sleigh Alderman John Garbutt Graeme Smith George Gillon (Chief Commoner) Patrick Streeter Alderman David Graves Deputy James Thomson Christopher Hayward Michael Hudson Enquiries: Katie Odling tel. no.: 020 7332 3414 [email protected] Lunch will be served in Guildhall Club at 1pm John Barradell Town Clerk and Chief Executive AGENDA Part 1 - Public Agenda 1. APOLOGIES 2. MEMBERS' DECLARATION S UNDER THE CODE OF CONDU CT IN RESPECT OF ITEMS ON THE AGENDA 3. MINUTES To agree the public minutes and summary of the meeting held on 16 July 2013. For Decision (Pages 1 - 8) 4. TOWN PLANNING AND DE VELOPMENT APPLICATIO NS Report of the City Planning Officer relative to development and advertisement applications dealt with under delegated authority. For Information (Pages 9 - 48) 5. REPORTS OF THE CITY PLANNING OFFICER REL ATIVE TO PLANNING APPLICATIONS a) Site bounded by 34 - 38, 39 - 41, 45 - 47 & 57B Little Britain, & 20, 25, 47, 48 - 50, 51 - 53, 59, 60, 61, 61A & 62 Bartholomew Close For Decision (Pages 49 - 104) 6. REPORTS OF THE DIREC TOR OF THE BUILT ENV IRONMENT a) The Vision and Direct ion for London's Streets and Roads For Information (Pages 105 - 130) b) Department of the Built Environment, Business Plan Progress Report for Q1 For Information (Pages 131 - 140) c) Towards a City Freight Strategy For Decision (Pages 141 - 148) 7. MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC LIFTS AND ESCALATORS ADJOINING BARBICAN ESTATE Report of the City Surveyor. For Information (Pages 149 - 156) 8. CITY FUND HIGHWAY SE COND DECLARATION - WALBROOK S QUARE, EC4 Report of the City Surveyor. For Decision (Pages 157 - 162) 9. QUESTIONS ON MATTERS RELATING TO THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE 10. ANY OTHER BUSINESS T HAT THE CHAIRMAN CON SIDERS URGENT 11. EXCLUSION OF TH E PUBLIC MOTION – That under Section 100(A) of the Local Government Act 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of the Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act. Part 2 - Non -public Agenda 12. NON -PUBLIC MINUTES To agree the non-public minutes of the meeting held on 16 July 2013. For Decision (Pages 163 - 164) 13. NON -PUBLIC QUESTI ONS ON MATTERS RELAT ING TO THE WORK OF T HE COMMITTEE 14. ANY OTHER BUSINESS T HAT THE CHAIRMAN CON SIDERS URGENT AND WHICH THE COMMITTEE AGREES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED WHILST THE PUBLIC ARE EXCLUDED Any drawings and details of mate rials submitted for approval will be available for inspection by Members in the Livery Hall from Approximately 9:30 a.m. 3 This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 3 PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE Tuesday, 16 July 2013 Minutes of the meeting of the Planning and Transportation Committee held at the Guildhall EC2 at 10.45am Present Members: Deputy Michael Welbank (Chairman) Deputy Keith Knowles Oliver Lodge (Deputy Chairman) Paul Martinelli Randall Anderson Brian Mooney David Bradshaw Sylvia Moys Deputy John Chapman Ann Pembroke Dennis Cotgrove Deputy Henry Pollard Revd Dr Martin Dudley Chris Punter Peter Dunphy Jeremy Simons John Fletcher Tom Sleigh Marianne Fredericks Graeme Smith George Gillon (Chief Commoner) Patrick Streeter Alderman David Graves Deputy James Thomson Michael Hudson Officers: Katie Odling - Town Clerk's Department Simon Murrells - Assistant Town Clerk Deborah Cluett - Comptroller and City Solicitor's Department Philip Everett - Director of the Built Environment Peter Rees - City Planning Officer, Department of the Built Environment Annie Hampson - Department of the Built Environment Victor Callister - Department of the Built Environment Ted Rayment - Department of the Built Environment Gemma Delves - Department of the Built Environment Paul Monaghan - Assistant Director Engineering Alan Rickwood - City Police Alexander Williams - City Police 1. APOLOGIES Apologies were received from Sophie Fernandes, Deputy Bill Fraser, Alderman John Garbutt, Christopher Hayward, Deputy Henry Jones, Deputy John Owen-Ward, Deputy Henry Pollard and Alderman Michael Mainelli. 2. MEMBERS' DECLARATIONS UNDER THE CODE OF CONDUCT IN RESPECT OF ITEMS ON THE AGENDA There were no declarations. Page 1 3. MINUTES RESOLVED – That the Minutes of the meeting held on 25 June 2013 be approved as a correct record subject to the following amendments – Item 3 – Minutes (amendments to the minutes of the meeting held on 4 June 2013) - “In addition, Members made, inter alia, the following comments: • Reverend Dudley commented that the application appeared to be half an application as it did not deal with the whole of the building and landscaping • Marianne Fredericks commented that there was no analysis of the impacts on the listed buildings other than the North Block and did not consider the effects on the Church, the Screen Wall, the Lucas Block or the East and West Blocks, which are all listed • Gregory Jones QC drew attention to the English Heritage letter regarding landscaping proposals indicating that they would not approve them, and commented that the statutory duties to pay special attention to the desirability of preserving the listed building or its setting and the desirability of preserving or enhancing the character or appearance of the conservation area had not been met and he referred to a High Court decision on the issue. Representation was also made to the condition attached to the letter from English Heritage.” 5.1. North Wing St Bartholomew’s Hospital West Smithfield London “The City Planning Officer informed the Committee that an application remained live until a decision notice had been issued.” 4. TOWN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS The Committee received a report of the City Planning Officer relative to development and advertisement applications that he had dealt with using his delegated authority since the previous meeting. RECEIVED. 5. REPORTS OF THE CITY PLANNING OFFICER RELATIVE TO PLANNING APPLICATIONS 5.1 43 Farringdon Street, 25 Snow Hill, 1A and 29 Smithfield Street Report Registered Plan No.: 13/00150/FULEIA Proposal: - Partial demolition of the existing building and other structures at 43 Farringdon Street and part redevelopment and part refurbishment of the existing buildings to provide office (B1) and retail (A1-A3) partial demolition of the existing building and other structures at 25 Snow Hill and 29 Smithfield Street to provide office (B1) and retail (A1-A3) uses with associated servicing and access (39,441 sq.m). The City Planning Officer advised the Committee that Crossrail had withdrawn their objection. The City Planning Officer informed Members of the following amendments and comments:- Page 2 • since the preparation of the report, letters of objection had been received from Professor V and Mrs Grylls, Mr John Wise, Mr Tom Holbrook and Dr Richard Latto. The matters that had been raised were covered by paragraph 45 of the report. A further letter had been received from John Burrell of Burrell Foley Fischer who had made a number of comments already covered by others. Additional points were made about the market roof structures which he had diagrammed. He also made reference to the reduction in scale, realignment and infilling of the phoenix columns and considered that they were not conserved; • the following people had withdrawn their support for the scheme: Winifred Grinsted, Fiona Hobbs and Philippe Berrah; • letters of support for the scheme had been received from The Worshipful Company of Butchers, Peter Thompson Group Ltd, Foggo Associates, Knight Frank and Jones Lang LaSalle. The letters noted that the scheme would regenerate the area by providing an appropriate mix of uses. They considered that the provision of new development and retention of existing fabric was well balanced; • page 27, paragraph 10: The Port of London Authority building was not listed; • page 42, paragraph 103: references to the City and S106 agreements should be removed. The second sentence should read “in this case the sums that the Mayor of London will receive in payment of Community Infrastructure Levy is a local finance consideration which is material to the application, and weighs in favour of the grant of planning permission”; • page 46, paragraph 132: the last sentence should identify the East and West Market Buildings as being Grade II* listed as opposed to Grade II listed; • page 50, paragraph 157: the first sentence should make reference to Farringdon Street and not Farringdon Road; • page 107: Condition 12 should be deleted as it is duplicated at Condition 31; • page 111: the following condition should be inserted after condition 29 (the subsequent condition numbering will be amended accordingly): a post construction BREEAM assessment demonstrating that a target rating of ‘Excellent’ has been achieved (or such other target rating as the local planning authority may agree provided that it is satisfied all reasonable endeavours has been used to achieve