Agenda and minutes

Councillor Nigel Young, Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee opened the meeting.

RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous meeting held on 12 September 2023 be agreed as a correct record.

Apologies were received from Councillor Shuey Gordon and Councillor Claire Farrier, for which Councillor Arjun Mittra substituted for.

Councillor Arjun Mittra stated that he would be stepping down from Item 6 as he had personal prejudicial interest on the item through working at City Hall with Councillor Anne Clarke, who was speaking on the item.

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The Committee noted the updated information contained within the published addendum in relation to agenda item 6.

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Cllr Arjun Mittra stepped down from this item and left the Committee room.

The Planning Officer presented the report and addendum.

Luisa Vallejo addressed the Committee against the officers recommendation for approval.

Dan Hawkins addressed the Committee in support of the officers recommendation for approval.

The Committee received representations on the officers recommendations from:

-           Councillor Alan Schneiderman

-           Councillor Anne Clarke

-           Councillor Guilia Innocenti

Morwenna Hall, the agent for the applicant, addressed the Committee in support of the application.

Following discussion, the Committee discussed the inclusion of the following amendments to the draft conditions set out in Appendix A of the Officer report, new condition and new informative. New text is shown underlined and deleted text shown struck through:

Condition 15 (Travel Plan)

15. Prior to first use or occupation of Part 1 of the development hereby approved a Clitterhouse Playing Fields Travel Plan shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The Clitterhouse Playing Fields Travel Plan shall include:

•           Appropriate objectives and targets to promote active/sustainable modes of travel strongly promoted as part of a package of measures which aim to drive down car mode share;

•           The provision of maps online showing routes (and indicating distances and times) to the most common destinations within Clitterhouse Playing Fields from relevant public transport facilities and shared public town centre car parks to be delivered in Brent Cross Town;

•           Communications strategy to ensure that active and sustainable travel means are promoted to those making bookings, including affirming that no car parking is permitted on site or adjacent local roads; and

•           Arrangements for managing coach and mini bus drop-off activities and how these will be communicated to visiting users of the site to prevent inappropriate coach parking within the surrounding streets; and

•           Monitoring programme and surveys to identify how users are travelling to/from the site in the future and enable targeting of future measures and initiatives to respond to feedback received.

The approved Clitterhouse Playing Fields Travel Plan shall be updated pursuant to this Condition after the first year of opening of the first all-weather artificial sports pitch within the development hereby approved and shall be thereafter reviewed at year 3 and year 5 after opening of the first all-weather artificial sports pitch.

The Clitterhouse Playing Fields Travel Plan (and any update to it) shall be implemented as approved for each Part or Phase of any Part of the development hereby approved and thereafter for the duration of the development hereby permitted.

Reason: To encourage the use of sustainable forms of transport to the Site in accordance with Policy CS9 of the Local Plan Core Strategy DPD (2012) and Policy DM17 of the Local Plan Development Management Policies DPD (2012).

Condition 27 (Materials for 3G pitches)

No formal changes to the condition were proposed but the Chair asked that it be minuted that the details of the materials to be used in the surface of the artificial 3G pitches be approved  ...  view the full minutes text for item 6.

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