Agenda and minutes

RESOLVED – That the decisions of the meeting held on 08 May 2012 be signed as an accurate record at a future meeting.

Apology of absence was received Councillor Darrel Yawitch and Councillor Gill Sargeant and Councillor Melvin Cohen.

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RESOLVED – That the Council’s decisions on the applications listed below be as indicated and that the Acting Assistant Director of Planning and Development Control be instructed to convey such decisions to the applicants.

All reference in the recommendations and reports to any Planning Policy

Guidance (PPG) or Planning Policy Statements (PPS) should be removed. All

PPGs and PPSs have been replaced by the National Planning Policy

Framework (NPPF) which was published on 27 March 2012. It is considered

that all applications comply with the relevant policies within the NPPF.

All reference in the recommendations and reports to BS 5837: 2005 should be

replaced with BS5837: 2012 - Trees in relation to design, demolition and

construction – Recommendations

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

The sub-Committee noted the receipt of an additional letter of objection, a correction on page 27 of the officer report, detail of land ownership and information regarding request to speak as set out in the tabled addendum.

The sub-Committee having heard from Susan Birnbaum and Ms Elsa Dawkins who spoke in objection to the application and a response from the applicant’s representative:

RESOLVED TO REFUSE the application (this being a reversal of the Officer’s recommendation) for the following reason;

1)    The proposed conversion by reason of its siting close to Gloucester Court and resultant overlooking onto proposed habitable rooms would provide unacceptable standards of amenity for future occupiers contrary to policies D5, H16 and H26 of the Barnet Adopted Unitary Development Plan (2006) and policy DM01 of the Emerging Local Plan Development Management Development Plan Document (Examination in Public Version) 2012.

2)    The proposals fail to provide adequate standards of usable amenity space for future occupiers contrary to policy H18 of the Barnet Adopted Unitary Development Plan (2006) and policy DM02 of the Emerging Local Plan Development Management Development Plan Document (Examination in Public Version) 2012.

3)    No undertaking has been given by the developer to meet identified additional educational, health, libraries and monitoring costs which would be incurred by the community as a result of the development, contrary to Policy CS1, CS8, CS13 of the Barnet Adopted Unitary Development Plan (2006), Adopted Supplementary Planning Document on Contributions to Education (2008), Libraries (2008), Health (2009) and Monitoring (2006) and policy CS15 of the Emerging Local Plan Core Strategy (Examination in Public Version) 2012.

The sub-Committee noted an amendment to condition 1, 7, informative 3, the insertion or an additional informative and comments from the Highways service as set out with the addendum to the report.   

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report and the addendum.

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

The sub-Committee noted the receipt of an amendment to condition 6 and 7 as set out within the addendum to the report.

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report and the addendum.

The sub-Committee noted an amendment to the officer’s report on page 64 and an amendment to informative 3 as set out in the tabled addendum.

The sub-Committee having heard from Mr Marino Valensise spoke in objection to the application and a response from the applicant.

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report and the addendum.

RESOLVED TO APPROVE the application as per the Officer’s report and subject to the conditions as set out in the report.

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