Planning Committee Agenda To: Councillor Paul Scott (Chairman); Councillor Humayun Kabir (Vice-Chairman); Councillors Jamie Audsley, Luke Clancy, Bernadette Khan, Jason Perry, Joy Prince, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, Susan Winborn and Chris Wright Reserve Members: Jeet Bains, Kathy Bee, Simon Brew, Richard Chatterjee, Sherwan Chowdhury, Pat Clouder, Steve Hollands, Shafi Khan, Maggie Mansell and Manju Shahul-Hameed A meeting of the PLANNING COMMITTEE which you are hereby summoned to attend, will be held on Thursday 20th July 2017 at 6:30pm in The Council Chamber, The Town Hall, Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX JACQUELINE HARRIS-BAKER MARGOT ROHAN Director of Law and Monitoring Officer Senior Members Services Manager London Borough of Croydon (020) 8726 6000 extn.62564 Bernard Weatherill House [email protected] 8 Mint Walk, Croydon CR0 1EA www.croydon.gov.uk/agenda 11 July 2017 THIS MEETING WILL BE WEBCAST LIVE - Click on link to view: https://croydon.public-i.tv/core/portal/home 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 MARGOT ROHAN by 4pm on the Tuesday before the meeting. N.B: This meeting will be paperless. The agenda can be accessed online via the mobile app: http://secure.croydon.gov.uk/akscroydon/mobile AGENDA - PART A 1. Apologies for absence 2. Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 6th July 2017 (Page 1) To approve the minutes as a true and correct record. 3. Disclosure of Interest Members will be asked to confirm that their Disclosure of Interest Forms are accurate and up-to-date. Any other disclosures that Members may wish to make during the meeting should be made orally. 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 relevant disclosable pecuniary interests at the meeting. 4. Urgent Business (if any) To receive notice from the Chair of any business not on the Agenda which should, in the opinion of the Chair, by reason of special circumstances, be considered as a matter of urgency. 5. Exempt Items To confirm the allocation of business between Part A and Part B of the Agenda. 6. Development presentations (Page 7) To receive the following presentations on a proposed development: 6.1 16/03919/PRE 330 Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 4XJ A two phased redevelopment of the existing building and surface parking to provide 35,000 Sq ft (phase 1) and 85,000sq ft (phase2) of Retail Space Ward: Broad Green 7. Planning applications for decision (Page 17) To consider the accompanying reports by the Director of Planning & Strategic Transport: 7.1 17/00650/FUL Rear of 1-9 Birchanger Road, South Norwood, London SE25 5BA Erection of 3 two storey three bedroom and 1 two storey 4 bedroom houses with accomodation in roofspace and provision of associated parking Ward: Woodside Recommendation: Grant permission 8. 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. 9. Other planning matters To consider the accompanying report by the Director of Planning & Strategic Transport: There are none. 10. [The following motion is to be moved and seconded as the “camera resolution” where it is proposed to move into part B 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 item 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. AGENDA - PART B None This page is intentionally blank Planning Committee Meeting held on Thursday 6th July 2017 at 5:30pm in The Council Chamber, The Town Hall, Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX MINUTES - PART A Present: Councillor Paul Scott (Chairman); Councillor Humayun Kabir (Vice-Chairman); Councillors Jamie Audsley, Luke Clancy, Bernadette Khan, Jason Perry, Joy Prince, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor, Susan Winborn and Chris Wright Also present: Councillors Sean Fitzsimons and Steve O'Connell Apologies: For lateness - Councillors Luke Clancy, Bernadette Khan and Councillor Wright A115/17 Minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 22nd June 2017 RESOLVED that the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 22 June 2017 be signed as a correct record. A116/17 Disclosure of Interest There were no disclosures of a pecuniary interest not already registered. A117/17 Urgent Business (if any) There was none. A118/17 Exempt Items RESOLVED that the allocation of business between Part A and Part B of the Agenda be confirmed. A119/17 Development presentations N.B. The following item was WITHDRAWN FROM THIS AGENDA: 6.2 - 16/03919/PRE 330 Purley Way, Croydon, CR0 4XJ To provide in phase 1 single storey buildings (with mezzanine) accommodating additional convenience goods store of Gross Internal Area (GIA) 1831m2, and 2322m2 of bulky goods sales space alongside retention of existing 'John Lewis' shop; In phase 2 to demolish the existing Page 1 of 36 John Lewis building and re-provide its area alongside an additional 6513m2 (GIA) of bulky good sales space within a single storey building (with mezzanine). Provision of A3 unit (restaurants and cafes) and associated parking, landscaping and service areas; Provision of new signal controlled junction onto the Purley Way Ward: Waddon 6.1 16/05511/PRE Land Adjacent To East Croydon Station and Land At Cherry Orchard Road, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Billington Hill, Croydon Erection of two 25 storey towers providing 170 and 152 residential units in the North and South towers respectively, each building on the Morello 2 site, and a residential building (5-9 storeys) to provide 98 residential units on the Cherry Orchard Gardens site. Public realm area works Ward: Addiscombe Cara Bamford (Make Architects) and James Cook (GL Hearn) attended to give a presentation and to respond to Members' questions and issues raised for further consideration prior to submission of a planning application. (N.B. Councillor Bernadette Khan entered the Chamber at 6:03pm) The main issues raised at this meeting were as follows: ● Echoed serious concern raised by GLA in their response that the current affordable housing element was unacceptable. Review mechanisms would be required. ● Affordable housing to come forward with rest of development and not to be left to the end. Could it be part of the towers pepperpotted? ● The provision and delivery of the bridge link was an absolute requirement and needed to be linked to occupancy of development. Concern raised that applicant proposed to treat as a separate application, if two applications were to come forward they needed to come hand in hand and be determined at the same time. The bridge link was an integral part of the public realm and needed to be a robust design, despite its possible temporary state before station upgrade works. ● Single core arrangement questioned and whether this would allow for different tenures. ● Provision of social rented accommodation should be investigated. ● Appearance of the development was generally accepted favourably, although concern about canyon effect with Cherry Orchard Gardens. ● Mix of units - concern about low level of family units - clarity about which units were 2-bed 4 person units ● Parking critical - do not want over provision - 2 car club spaces would be welcomed Page 2 of 36 ● Active and positive frontages required at ground level and towers side ● Pocket park around tree rather than private fenced off space ● Concern over single aspect units - particularly Cherry Orchards part of site ● Support for retention of most of trees Cllr Sean Fitzsimons, ward Member for Addiscombe, made the following comments: ● Lot of effort to make scheme worse. ● Welcome retention of trees. ● Public open land for over 100 years and residents want to protect it. ● History of applicant not wanting affordable housing on their site. ● Do not need separate cores in developments any more. Every landing can have firewalls. ● Architecturally very nice but no active frontage - needs more life. ● There were 40 flats there. 100 flats in development. ● Do not need car parking spaces - could be used for community amenity space. ● Do not need a fancy staircase. (N.B. Councillors Luke Clancy and Chris Wright entered the Chamber at 6:40pm and 7.1 was considered after this first presentation) 6.3 17/00535/PRE Rees House, 2 Morland Lodge and 6 Morland Road, Croydon CR0 6NA Demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a part four/part five storey building for use as a 1200 place secondary school (with Sixth Form) with associated rooftop MUGA and provision of car/cycle parking areas and landscaping Ward: Addiscombe Alan Gunne Jones (Planning Consultant), James Tatham (Architect), Charlie Fagan (ARK School) and Paul Freeman (applicant) attended to give a presentation and to respond to Members' questions and issues raised for further consideration prior to submission of a planning application. The main issues raised at this meeting were as follows: ● Supportive of approach ● Some concerns regarding design, particularly front elevation, rather dull and uninspiring – it should not be too flashy but to be a bit more considered, bringing positive parts of the architecture to the front. Double height entrance works well, could the broken corner be continued? , Page 3 of 36 ● Consideration of public art ● Sports facilities - how will they work? ● Building relationships with local environment ● Effective travel plan - low level of parking provided ● Road safety - pavement widths, can they be widened? Road is very fast and busy ● Consideration for cyclists - promoting in this area would be very positive with parking ● Good travel plan summary to be submitted with application ● Good travel plan summary to be submitted with application ● Bus capacity to be considered.