Agenda item

The Planning Manager:

 

a.    advised that the planning application related to Submission of Reserved Matters including access, appearance, landscaping, layout and scale for the erection of a six-storey building incorporating student accommodation and car parking as required by outline planning permission 2017/0721/OUT

 

b.    described the application site situated in general terms, to the east of the High Street, at the south-western corner of the junction of Grantham Street with Flaxengate also adjoining Swan Street to the west

 

c.    advised that the application site was irregular but roughly square in shape, currently utilised as a surface car park adjacent to commercial uses

 

d.    described the relevant planning history to the application site as detailed within the officer’s report

 

e.    provided details of the policies pertaining to the application as follows:

 

·         Policy LP1: A Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development

·         Policy LP2: The Spatial Strategy and Settlement Hierarchy

·         Policy LP3: Level and Distribution of Growth

·         Policy LP5: Delivering Prosperity and Jobs

·         Policy LP6: Retail and Town Centres in Central Lincolnshire

·         Policy LP7: A Sustainable Visitor Economy

·         Policy LP9: Health and Wellbeing

·         Policy LP11: Affordable Housing

·         Policy LP12: Infrastructure to Support Growth

·         Policy LP13: Accessibility and Transport

·         Policy LP14: Managing Water Resources and Flood Risk

·         Policy LP16: Development on Land Affected by Contamination

·         Policy LP17: Landscape, Townscape and Views

·         Policy LP21: Biodiversity and Geodiversity

·         Policy LP24: Creation of New Open Space, Sports and Recreation Facilities

·         Policy LP25: The Historic Environment

·         Policy LP26: Design and Amenity

·         Policy LP29: Protecting Lincoln’s Setting and Character

·         Policy LP31: Lincoln’s Economy

·         Policy LP33: Lincoln's City Centre Primary Shopping Area and Central Mixed Use Area

·         Policy LP36: Access and Movement within the Lincoln Area

·         Policy LP37: Sub-division and multi-occupation of dwellings within Lincoln

·         National Planning Policy Framework      

 

6. outlined the responses made to the consultation exercise

 

7. referred to the update sheet which contained photographs of the proposed development

 

8. advised members in respect of matters to be considered as follows:

 

 

·   The Impact of the Design of the Proposals;

·   The Implications of the Proposals upon Amenity

·   Sustainable Access and Highway Safety;

·   Archaeology;

·   Matters Controlled by Planning Conditions on the Outline Planning Permission;

·   Other Matters; and

·   The Planning Balance.

 

9. concluded that:

 

 

Dominik Jackson of Jackson & Jackson Developments Limited addressed Planning Committee on behalf of the Applicant in support of the development, covering the following main points:

 

·         The height of the building had been further reduced from the maximum parameters referred to in the outline planning permission reducing its impact on the Conservation Area.

·         There was an urgent need for purpose built student accommodation in the city over the next 2/3 years.

·         His company had been approached by the University of Lincoln already having outline planning permission for the site.

·         The developer had worked closely with officers and the City Archaeologist to arrive at this result.

·         He understood that the indicative visuals raised concerns at the original outline permission and the look had been redesigned.

·         The design would consist of a buff brick building with bronze metal window frames and solid recessed elements to the windows of a different buff brick colour.

·         The relationship with the building on Swan Street had been reduced in height by 1.5 metres.

·         The car park would be served by a single access, not two as per the indicative planning application.

·         The development fitted in with adjacent buildings.

·         The developer had listened carefully to officers and the City Archaeologist to produce an appropriate building in terms of design.

·         Secure cycle parking was provided.

·         The building complemented the hotel recently granted planning permission.

·         The council’s own CCTV camera would be added to the façade of the building.

·         This was a significant improvement to an under utilised site.

·         Thank you for listening to him.

 

Members discussed the content of the report in further detail, offering general support to the proposed scheme.

 

Concerns were raised regarding removal of trees resulting in the urban area loosing foliage and the need to think about this important element as the city developed.

 

Clarification was sought as to how the boutique style frontage to the hotel granted planning permission on Clasketgate at the previous meeting would fit in to the design of this development.

 

The Planning Manager advised that the scale of the proposed development in relation to the hotel building was considered equivalent in terms of external mass and appropriate in context.

 

RESOLVED that planning permission be granted, with authority delegated to the Planning Manager to formulate Planning Conditions covering the matters referred to below:-

 

·         Schedule of materials;

·         Scheme for the inclusion of bird boxes on or as part of the fabric of the building;

·         Scheme for future management of the building; and

·         Scheme for CCTV cameras to replace the existing provision.