PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE

2 May 2001

9.30am to 3.15pm

 

PRESENT:   Councillors Slatter (Chair), Blencowe, Cowell, Dryden, Harrison, Hipkin, Nimmo-Smith, M Schofield, Smart, Smith. 

 

Also Present:          Councillor Bradnack for applications C/01/0036 and C/01/0183 as a Ward Councillor

                                    Councillor Bagnall for application C/00/0032 as a Ward Councillor

 

FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE COUNCIL

 

01/j/36            MINUTES

 

The minutes of the meeting held on 7 March 2001 were confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

 
01/j/37            Apologies

 

There were no apologies for absence.

 

01/j/38            Declarations of Interest

 

A pecuniary interest was declared as follows:

 

·            Councillor Slatter in relation to application C/01/0125, The Leys School, Trumpington Road, as her husband was an employee of The Leys School.  She withdrew from the room whilst the application was being considered, and Councillor Hipkin took the Chair in her place.

 

Code of Conduct (non-financial) interests were declared as follows:

 

·        Councillor Smart in relation to application C/01/0036, 83 Mill Road, as she was the Chair of the Ditchburn Place/Stanton House Management Committee.

·        Councillor Nimmo-Smith in relation to application C/01/0085, 57 Hartington Grove, as he was currently involved in a motor insurance claim with one of the objectors to the application.  He withdrew from the room whilst the application was being considered.

 

01/j/39            Planning Applications

 

A summary of decisions on applications for planning consent is set out in the appendix to these minutes. Full details of the decisions, conditions of permissions and reasons for refusals may be inspected in the Environment and Planning Department.

 

Resolved  that

 

1.      Planning applications considered by the Subcommittee be determined as set out in appendix 1 to these minutes.

2.      Conditions or grounds for refusal, which the Subcommittee had delegated to the Director of Environment and Planning to draw up during the course of the meeting, following consultation with the Chair and Spokesperson, be as set out in appendix 2 to these minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Appendix 1          

Planning Committee

2nd May 2001

 

 

1

No:                 C/01/0183

Site:               Mazda Car Showroom, Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, CB1 3ES

Proposal:     Demolition of car showroom and erection of retail warehouse

                        together with a car park and landscaping, and alterations to the

                        existing access arrangement.

PSR:              Councillor Bradnack (Ward Councillor)

Applicant:     B L Universal

APPROVED: subject to the successful completion of an obligation  under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended)  to

i) limit the range of goods to be sold 

ii) to preclude any proposals for the creation of a service road to the rear of the York Street properties, coming forward from the site owners within 5 years of commencement of development.

And, subject to the following conditions:

1.      Standard Time – Full Permissions (CO1)

2.      Cycle Parking (C22)

3.      Disabled car parking spaces to be formally marked out

4.      Hard and soft Landscape works (C31)

5.      Landscape works implementation (C34)

6.      Hard and soft landscape implementation (C35)

7.      Floodlighting details, buildings (C38A)

8.      Noise Insulation (C62)

9.      Construction Hours (C63)

10.  Method statement detailing the method of demolition 

11. Dust suppressions provision

12. Potential contamination mitigation methods

13. Collection and delivery hours

14. Arrangements for the storage and disposal of all waste

15. Details of the proposed plant associated with the re-located/upgraded sub-station.

16. Elevation and plan design details of the relocated sub-station

17. The trees adjoining the rear service access shall be subject to a scheme of selective management and careful pruning to ensure that they are not damaged by vehicles delivering to the unit or accessing the electricity substation.

18. Provision and implementation of pollution control

19. Motorcycle parking provision.

And the following informatives:

1.  Considerate Contractor Scheme (A105)

2.  The applicant is advised to contact Cambridge City Council’s Food and Occupational Safety Section, Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, Tel: (01223 457900) for advice concerning health and safety/food regulations/ requirements, as the premises may require registration under Office Shops and Railway Premises Act and will need to comply with the standards contained in the Health and Safety Regulations.

3.  The applicant is advised in relation to the desk top study for possible   

      contamination to refer to:

A.     Department of Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research

            Report – “Guidance on preliminary site inspection of contaminated

            land”, prepared by Applied Environmental Research Centre Ltd., CLR

            No 2, Volume One (of two), 1994.

      B.  Construction Industry Research and Information Association  CIRIA

            (1995) Special Publication 103:- “Remedial Treatment for

             Contaminated Land”, Volume III: “Site Investigation and Assessment”.

      C.  British Standards Code of Practice for “Investigation of Potentially

          Contaminated Sites” 1999.

      D. This planning permission should be read in conjunction with the associated   deed of planning obligation prepared under S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) between Cambridge City Council and dated as this decision notice.

                                                                                                                                               

 

2

No:                 C/01/0036

Site:               83 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2AW

Proposal:     Alterations to the front entrance, erection of a single storey rear

                        extension, installation of new doorways and windows in the rear

                        elevation and erection of a rear pergola and external staircase.

PSR:              Councillor Bradnack (Ward Councillor)

Applicant:     Mr I J Stennett

REFUSED    (9 votes to 1) based on Policy BE2 of the Cambridge Local Plan 1996 a

And PPG 1 General Principles – Paragraph 64, subject to consultation with Chair and Spokesperson.

                                                                                                                                               

 

3

No:                 C/01/0126

Site:               Zion Church Hall, 1 East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1BD

Proposal:     Removal of conditions 01 of planning permission C/98/0120/VC

                        to allow permanent use of the premises as a nightshelter

                        facility for homeless people.

PSR:              Mrs Jenny Kirner (local resident) and Rev Tony Barker (applicant)

Applicant:     The Minister and Members

APPROVED (8 votes to 0) subject to the following condition:

1. The use hereby permitted shall be discontinued and the building restored to its former condition and use on or before 31 May 2006, in accordance with a scheme of work to be submitted to the local planning authority.    

                                                                                                                                               

 

4

No:                 C/01/0231

Site:               23 St Barnabas Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BU

Proposal:     Single storey extension to existing dental technicians laboratory

                        (retrospective application).

Applicant:     J Wylie

APPROVED Unconditionally

                                                                                                                                               

 

5

No:                 C/01/0232

Site:               Parkside Pool & Kelsey Kerridge Sports Centre, Gonville Place,

                        Cambridge

Proposal:     Installation of externally illuminated sign above entrance canopy,

                        halo illuminated sign and freestanding internally illuminated

                        entrance sign.

Applicant:     David Poole, Director of Community Services, Cambridge City Council

APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the following condition under Regulation 13 of the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992

1.      The advertisement the subject of this express consent shall be removed on or before 5 years from the date of this consent.

And the following conditions:

1. Adverts restriction on illumination (CAD1)

2. A drawing of scale at least 1:50 of the precise position of Sign 1 on the west elevation of the building shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority, and implemented as agreed.

3. Details of the means of external illumination of Sign 1 shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority, and implemented as agreed.

4. The means of illumination of Sign 2 shall be first agreed in writing with the local planning authority and implemented in accordance with that agreed.

                                                                                                                                               

 

6

No:                 C/01/0085

Site:               57 Hartington Grove, Cambridge, CB1 4UB

Proposal:     Change of use from residential care home with ancillary residential flat to two flats.

Applicant:     Mohammad Jamic Akhtah

APPROVED (8 votes to 0) subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1).

2. Details of the position of refuse facilities for the two flats shall be submitted to and approved in writing with the local planning authority, and implemented as agreed.

3. Cycle Parking (C22A).

And the following informative:

1. For the avoidance of doubt the applicant is advised that there are no permitted development rights for flats and that any changes to the physical appearance of the building will therefore require planning permission.

                                                                                                                                               

 

7

No:                 C/01/0081

Site:               J Sainsbury PLC, Brooks Road, Cambridge, CB1 3HP

Proposal:     Installation of noise mitigation works in service yard (including acoustic screen 5.5m high) and variation of condition 13 of planning permission

                        C/99/0820/FP to extend delivery hours of supermarket: no goods delivered outside the hours of 0600 and midnight Monday-Friday 0700-0800 weekends and bank holidays. All delivery vehicles to have left the site by 2230 Mondays to Fridays, 1800 hours on Saturday and 1600 Sundays and Bank Holidays (unless they are to remain on site over-night without their engine running and with their refrigeration plant turned off until the above stipulated commencement times for delivery on the following day).

Applicant:     Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd

APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the following conditions:

1. Hours of delivery of goods

2. Sound attenuation barrier time limit

And the following informatives:

1. Restrictions on use of reversing beepers

2. Early morning van deliveries excluded from loading bay

3. Any cultivating or works affecting the flow of a watercourse requires prior written consent of the Environment Agency under the terms of the Land Drainage Act 1991/Water Resources Act 1991. The Environment Agency seeks to avoid culverting, and its Consent for such works will not normally be granted except as a means of access. The granting of planning approval must not be taken to imply that consent has been given with respect to the above.

                                                                                                                                               

 

8

No:                 C/01/0125     

Site:               The Leys School, Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 2AD

Proposal:     Erection of a three storey teaching building to west of playing field.

Applicant:     The Governors of The Leys School

DEFERRED (6 votes to 0) pending future consultation on parking provision and Green Travel Plan

                                                                                                                                               

 

9

No:                 C/01/0162     

Site:               104 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LH

Proposal:     Erection of roof extension to existing offices.

Applicant:     Pace Investments Ltd

APPROVED (9 votes to 1) subject to prior satisfactory completion of a S.106 Obligation to secure 11 commuted car parking payments (£27,500), and the following conditions:

1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)

2. Materials samples (C11)

3. Construction hours (C63)

4. Cycle Parking (C22A)

And the following informatives:

1. The applicant is urged to liaise with the BBC with regard to the proposed programme of construction for the development hereby permitted. The applicant is advised to seek methods of minimising noise arising from such works in order that construction should not unduly disturb radio or television broadcasts. The applicant should also liaise with the BBC with regard to hours of construction on the site.

2. The applicant is advised to liaise with the BBC with regard to the presence of aerials on the roof of Betjamin House, in order that construction works do not impinge upon the operation of such telecommunications equipment.

                                                                                                                                               

 

10

No:                 C/01/0191     

Site:               5 Belmore Close, Cambridge, CB4 3NN

Proposal:     Erection of a two storey side extension, including replacement of existing garage.

PSR:              Mr Brian Smith (applicant)

Applicant:     Mr & Mrs B Smith

APPROVED (9 votes to 1) with delegated authority given to the Director of Environment and Planning to add conditions.

                                                                                                                                               

 

11

No:                 C/01/0097     

Site:               26 Victoria Street, Cambridge, CB1 1JP

Proposal:     Change of use from garage (sui generis use) and hairdresser (use class A1) to residential through the erection of six dwellings (four maisonettes and two houses) with associated gardens and parking.

Applicant:     Callie Limited

APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the satisfactory completion of a S106 obligation. The heads of terms for the S106 are:

1) Formal open space contribution £5814

2) Informal open space contribution of £4608

3) Children’s play area contribution of £2064

And subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)

2. Sample panel of facing materials

3. 1:20 scale details (C14)

4. All window frames and doors must be constructed from timber and shall be   retained thereafter in that condition.

5. Car port structure details

6. Historic boundary wall survey

7. Provision of parking, loading, turning (C20)

8. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)

9. Hard and soft landscape implementation (C35)

10. Cycle Parking (C22A)

11. Construction hours (C63)

12. Restoration of damage to listed buildings (C101)

13. Method of demolition and details of dust suppression

14. Arrangements for the storage and disposal of all waste

15. Details of contractors operations (C64)

16. Full specification methodology for the remediation of contaminants

17. Scheme for the insulation of the building

And the following informatives:

1. Considerate contractor scheme

2. All best endeavours must be taken to ensure the protection and continuing good health of the Russian Vine in the garden of 7 Parker Street, which contributes to the setting of the listed building.

3. The applicant is advised to refer to Environment Agency comments dated 21 March 2001.

4. The developer should contact the Highway Authority, or its agent, to arrange construction of any works within, or disturbance of, or interference with, the Public Highway, and that all costs associated with such works shall be borne by the developer.

5. The developer will neither be permitted to drain the roof over the public highway, nor across it in a surface channel, but must make arrangements to install a piped drainage connection.

6. No window or door will be allowed to open over a highway, and no foundation or footing for the structure will be allowed to encroach under the public highway.

7. The granting of a planning permission does not constitute a permission or licence to a developer to carry out any works within, or disturbance of, or interference with, the Public Highway, and a separate permission must be sought from the Highway Authority for such works.

8. The applicant is advised in relation to the desk top study for possible   

      contamination to refer to:

A    Department of Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research

      Report – “Documentary research on industrial sites”, prepared by

      RPS Consultants Ltd, CLR Report No 3, 1994.

B.     Department of Environment (DoE) Contaminated Land Research

            Report – “Guidance on preliminary site inspection of contaminated

            land”, prepared by Applied Environmental Research Centre Ltd., CLR

            No 2, Volume One (of two), 1994.

      C.  Construction Industry Research and Information Association  CIRIA

            (1995) Special Publication 103:- “Remedial Treatment for

             Contaminated Land”, Volume III: Site Investigation and Assessment.

      D.  British Standards Code of Practice for “Investigation of Potentially

           Contaminated Sites” 1999.

9. The applicant is advised that the new dwelling units will not be entitled to residents permits within the Kite Residents Parking Scheme.

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

12

No:                 C/00/1078

Site:                           Milton Arms PH, 205 Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 1XG

Proposal:     Single storey side extension to pub

Applicant:     Greene King Pub Co

APPROVED  subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)

2. Cycle Parking (C22)

3. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)

4. Landscape works maintenance (C34)

5. Construction hours (C63)

6. No development shall commence until details of a disabled parking space within the rear parking area for use in conjunction with the development hereby permitted has been submitted to and approved by the local planning authority in writing.

And the following informative:

1. The applicant is advised to contact Cambridge City Council’s Food and Occupational Safety Section, Mandela House, 4 Regent Street, Cambridge, Tel: (01223 457900) for advice concerning health and safety/food regulation requirements.

                                                                                                                                               

 

13

No:                 C/01/0196/FP

Site:                           Mayflower House, Manhattan Drive, Cambridge

Proposal:     Installation of telecommunications apparatus comprising 6 No ADC antennas and equipment and equipment cabin.

Applicant:     Vodaphone Limited

APPROVED (9 votes to 0) subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard time – full permissions (CO1)

2. Timetable for the removal of the existing equipment currently in use on the Simoco site.

3. The antenna hereby granted approval shall be removed as soon as is reasonably practical after its use for telecommunications technology or as a result of other considerations.

4. The equipment cabinet and antennae hereby approved shall be finished Vandyke brown, as shown on the drawings, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the local planning authority.

5. Prior to installation of equipment, aluminium sheeting of 0.2mm minimum thickness to be laid.

And the following informative:

1. If further telecommunications development is required at this site the Local Planning Authority will expect the operator to look creatively at sharing any existing equipment on site in order to minimise further visual impact.

                                                                                                                                               

 

14

No:                 C/00/0032/FP

Site:                           Former Laundry Building, Laundry Lane, Cambridge.

Proposal:     Erection of 17 dwelling houses with access from Derwent Close,

                        following the demolition of the existing building.

PSR:              Mr Birch (Resident) and Mr Toovey on behalf of the applicant.

Applicant:     Pascuzzi Brothers

APPROVED (by 6 votes to 3) subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard Time – full permissions (CO1)

2. Materials samples (C11)

3. Sample Panel (C15)

4. Parking, loading, unloading as attached plan (C20B)

5. Provision and retention of Car Parking (C21)

6. Cycle Parking (CO22)

7. Hard and soft landscape works (C31)

8. Landscape works maintenance (C34)

9. Boundary Treatment (implementation before occupation) (C37A)

10. Construction Hours (C63)

11. Details of Contractors operations (C64)

12. Cycle Parking (CO22)

13. Permitted Development Restriction (extensions) (C80)

14. Permitted Development Exclusion (windows or dormers) (C81)

                                                                                                                                               

 

 

15

No:                 C/00/0238/FP

Site:                           Former Abattoir, Church End, Cambridge, CB1 3LB

Proposal:     Demolition of existing Abattoir building and ancillary offices and erection of new two-storey office building (1836 square metres) with associated car parking and landscaping (Class B1).

Applicant:     Semitool Europe Ltd

APPROVED (unanimously) subject to the successful completion of an agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 with the following heads of terms:

1. A financial contribution towards the Eastern Corridor Area Transport Plan (ECATP) to be advised on the pre-Committee amendment sheet.

2. The preparation of a Travel for Work Plan for employees

3. The premises shall be subject to a restriction on occupancy to Semitool Europe or other established Cambridge companies for a 10 year period from first occupancy.

And subject to the following conditions:

1. Standard Time – full permissions (C01).

2. Materials samples (C11).

3. Sample Panel (C15).

4. Specified parking, loading, unloading (C20A).

5. Cycle Parking (C22).

6. Soft landscape works details (C32)

7. Landscape works maintenance (C34)

8. Hard and soft landscape implementation (C35)

9. Landscape management plan (C36)

10. Floodlighting details (C38)

11. Details of planting implementation (Trees) C53.

12. Replacement Trees and Shrubs (C54)

13. Fume Filtration/Extraction (C60)

14. Noise Insulation (C62)

15. Construction hours (C63)

16. Details of contractors operations (C64)

17. Archaeology (C85A)

18. Details of foul and surface drainage

20. Surface water treatment

21. Details of any changes in ground levels

22.  Land contamination investigation

And the following informatives:

1. This planning permission should be read in conjunction with the associated deed of planning obligation prepared under S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) between Cambridge City Council and dated as this decision notice.

2. Considerate Contractor Scheme

 

                                                                                                           

 

 

16

No:                 C/98/0355/FP

Site:                           Sixth Schedule - Pedestrian Bridge - of the Cattle Market Site  Redevelopment Section 106 Agreement.

Proposal:     The possible exercising of 6.2 b), to allow payment to the Council of the cost of the provision by the Council of an alternative pedestrian link to satisfy the relevant policy objectives.

Applicant:     Turnstone Estates

APPROVED subject to the payment of a figure of £350,000 towards the provision of “other measures”.

 

                                                                                                                                               

 

Agenda Item 5

 

Subject:        Variation of S106 obligation – the Moller Centre, Churchill College

APPROVED (unanimously) to modify S106 obligation dated 25/2/1991 to discharge the requirement for 27 study bedrooms to be available for undergraduates during University term time subject to additional S106 requirements as follows:

a)  The implementation and earliest completion of planning permission C/00/0673/FP  and C/00/0674/CAC for 30 Graduate rooms in accordance with the timetable set out in the Bursar’s letter of 20 February 2001, and

b)  The re-designation and continued use thereafter of 27 rooms (in staircases 2-5) within the main college complex for undergraduates only from the first occupation of the new graduate accommodation referred to above, and thereafter in accordance with the details set out in the Bursar’s letter of 20 February 2001.

 

 

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