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North Planning Committee North Planning Committee Meeting date: TUESDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2006 Time: 7.30PM Venue: COMMITTEE ROOM 5, CIVIC CENTRE HIGH STREET, UXBRIDGE To Members on the Planning Committee Councillors Conservation Area Advisory Panel Members Scott Seaman-Digby (Chairman) Michael Platts (Eastcote) Bruce Baker (Vice Chairman) Clive Pigram (Ruislip) Shirley Harper O’Neill David Horne John Ross (Harefield) David Payne Peter Curling Michael Hirst (Canal Locks) Tony Burles Pamela Jeffreys (Ickenham) Substitute Councillors Anne Banks Geoff Courtenay Henry Higgins Lee Griffin Josephine Barrett Brian Crowe Mary O’Connor Norman Nunn-Price David Bishop Catherine Dann Michael White Mo Khursheed George Cooper John Hensley David Allam Janet Duncan Further information For information about the planning applications please telephone 01895 250401. This agenda was published on Monday 20th February 2006. If you would like further information about the meeting please call Miriam Wearing in Hillingdon’s Cabinet Office on 01895 556517 [email protected] or visit the Council’s website www.hillingdon.gov.uk Involving the Public in the way we do business… The Public have a right to petition and speak at this committee, but must notify the Cabinet Office beforehand on 01895 556517. Members of the Public and Press are very welcome to attend this meeting. Free parking is available via the entrance to the Civic Centre in the High Street. Bus routes 427, U1, U3, U4 and U7 all stop at the Civic Centre. Uxbridge underground station, with the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines, is a short walk away. This agenda Please enter from the Council’s main reception where you will be is available in directed to the Committee Room. Please switch off your mobile phone when entering the room and note that the Council large print operates a no-smoking policy in its offices. Agenda 1. Apologies for Absence 2. Declarations of Interest in matters coming before this meeting 3. To sign and receive the minutes of the meeting held on 7th February 2006 (copy attached) 4. Matters that have been notified in advance or urgent. 5. To confirm that the items of business marked Part I will be considered in Public and that the items marked Part 2 will be considered in private. 6. Consideration of the reports from the Head of Planning & Transportation Reports - Part 1 – Members, Public and the Press Items are normally marked in the order that they will be considered, though the Chairman may vary this. Reports are split into ‘major’ and ‘minor’ applications. The name of the local ward area is also given in addition to the address of the premises or land concerned. Major Applications Without Petition Address Ward Description & Recommendation Page 1 RAF Northolt, West End South Ruislip New and refurbished living 1. Road, Ruislip accommodation, mess facilities, sports, social, health and welfare facilities, new office and technical accommodation (totalling 53,590 sq metres floorspace), improved infrastructure including utilities, access roads and parking (outline application) (consultation under circular 18/84 procedure) Recommendation – no objection subject to junction and signal design and conditions. Non Major Applications Without Petitions Address Ward Description & Recommendation Page 2. The Old Forge, Northwood Change of use from car showroom 50. Rickmansworth Road, to retail/shop (interior design Northwood products) (retrospective application) Recommendation - approval 3. 76 Linden Avenue, Manor Erection of a first floor side 56. Ruislip extension and pitched roof over existing front porch. Recommendation - approval 4. New Appeals and Appeal Decisions January 1st 2006 to January 31st 2006. (page 63) 5. Bi-monthly Progress Report on Breaches of Planning Control. (page 75) Other Business PLANNING COMMITTEE – 28 FEBRUARY 2006 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR (NORTH) OF PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION A Item No. 1 Report of the Director of Planning and Transportation Address: RAF NORTHOLT, WEST END ROAD, RUISLIP Development: NEW AND REFURBISHED LIVING ACCOMMODATION, MESS FACILITIES, SPORTS, SOCIAL, HEALTH AND WELFARE FACILITIES, NEW OFFICE AND TECHNICAL ACCOMMODATION (TOTALLING 53,590 SQ. METRES FLOORSPACE), IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING UTLITIES, ACCESS ROADS AND PARKING (OUTLINE APPLICATION) (CONSULTATION UNDER CIRCULAR 18/84 PROCEDURE) LBH Ref Nos: 189/APP/2005/1321 Drawing Nos: Figures 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5032193/TP/002 rev. A, 5031362 /TP/PD/004 rev. B; Supporting Statement, Design Statement, Flood Risk Assessment, Building Condition Survey, Tree survey, Land Quality Statement, Consultation Statement, Sustainability Appraisal, Environmental Review, Transport Assessment, received12/5/2005. Date of receipt: 12/05/2005 Date(s) of Amendment(s): None 1.0 SUMMARY 1.1 This is a Notice of Proposed Development (NOPD) by the Defence Estates under Circular 18/84 Procedures. As the proposal involves development by a Government Department the Council as Local Planning Authority does not have the power of determination as with a normal planning application and can only provide its views on the proposal to the developing Department. The submission is in outline form with only the means of access to be considered at this stage. There is considered to be no objection to the principle of the development or access arrangements. It is therefore recommended that the applicant be advised that this Council raises no objection to the proposal subject to appropriate conditions. 2.0 RECOMMENDATION - That the applicant be informed that the Council as Local Planning Authority raises no objection to the proposal subject to the following: North Planning Committee – 28 February 2006 Page 1 PART 1 – MEMBERS, PUBLIC AND PRESS 1. That details of the proposed junction and signal design for the Main Gate, the White House Gate and Station Approach/West End Road junctions are approved by the Council and Transport for London before any work is commenced on site and the proposed off-site highway works, including the provision of highway grass verges and foot paths affected by carriageway widening at the Main Gate, are implemented before occupation of any of the development subject of this Notice. 2. That the following conditions be imposed: 1. The development hereby permitted 1. (OUT1) Standard. shall begin either before the expiration of 5 years from the date of this permission, or before the expiration of two years from the date of approval of the last of the reserved matters to be approved, whichever is the later. 2. The application for approval of the 2. (OUT2) Standard reserved matters shall be made to the Local Planning Authority before the expiration of 3 years from the date of this permission. 3. Approval of the details of the siting, 3. (a) To ensure that the design and external appearance of the Council’s objectives buildings and the landscaping of for Green Belt individual phases of the development enhancement are met. (hereinafter called the “reserved (b) To ensure that the matters”) shall be obtained in writing development does not from the Local Planning Authority for prejudice the each phase of development, before appearance of the development of that phase is locality commenced. For each phase, the (c) The free flow of traffic detailed drawings to be submitted shall and conditions of incorporate the following: general safety within (i) The siting of all buildings and the site and on the ancillary structures (including local highway network sub-stations necessitated by the (d) The amenity and use of development) relative to neighbouring property. surrounding development and (e) To enable the Local details of associated demolitions. Planning Authority to (ii) The traffic arrangements assess the amenity including the means of ingress value of existing trees, and egress, the closure of hedges and shrubs existing access (where and the impact of the appropriate), visibility splays, the proposed development footpath network, cycle network, on them. the phasing of any construction work and construction traffic signage. North Planning Committee – 28 February 2006 Page 2 PART 1 – MEMBERS, PUBLIC AND PRESS (iii) The parking, turning, loading and unloading arrangements. (iv) The means of construction and surfacing of all roads, drives, parking areas and footpaths. (v) The use, surface treatment and landscaping of all open areas and landscaping zones not occupied by buildings or roads, including the provision for protected areas of landscaping and planting from accidental damage by vehicles. (vi) The finished levels of the development in relation to the levels of the surrounding area and ordinance datum. (vii) An accurate survey plan at a scale of not less than 1:200 shall be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority. The plan must show: (a) Position, height, species, condition and branch spread of all existing trees, shrubs and hedges on and immediately adjoining the site. (b) A clear indication of trees, hedges and shrubs to be retained and removed. (c) Existing and finished site levels (d) Routes of any existing or proposed underground works and overhead lines, including their manner of construction. (viii) Full plans and elevations of all buildings, screen walls and structures to a scale of not less than 1:100, incorporating details of all materials to be used for external surfaces, including samples of all such materials. (ix) The treatment of the boundaries (where appropriate), indicating which are existing and which are new treatments and incorporation of full details of height and materials. (x) Details of cycle storage and North Planning Committee – 28 February 2006 Page 3 PART 1 – MEMBERS, PUBLIC AND PRESS changing/showering facilities (xi) Security measures, including CCTV and external lighting. 4. No phase of development approved by 4. To ensure that the this permission shall be commenced development does not until a landscape master plan strategy, prejudice the appearance of including long term design objectives, the locality.
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