Agenda item

The applications was for the demolition of existing building and erection of a four storey building to comprise flexible commercial floorspace (Use Class A1/A2/A3/B1/D1/D2) at ground floor level and 25 residential apartments (100% affordable housing comprising 12 no. 1 bed and 13 no. 2 bed) at part ground and upper levels, together with associated car parking (25 residential spaces and 11 commercial spaces), cycle provision, communal rear amenity space and private garden for flat 1, refuse storage, landscaping and other associated works. (Amended Information - Rec'd 07/09/2017.)

Application 17/0669, Ashwood House, 16-22 Pembroke Broadway, Camberley GU15 3XD, was considered in conjunction with this application.

Members received the following updates:

‘Paragraph 6.0 (Final bullet point top of page 18) - This should read ‘no.146 Frimley Road’

Paragraph 7.9.1 – Thames Water has confirmed that the attenuated flow rate of 2l/s can be accommodated in the sewer. The Lead Local Flood Authority supports the proposal, subject to conditions. 

Condition 19 (page 34) – The applicant has requested that condition 19 be amended so that the commercial use shall not be subdivided into less than two units. This is to enable a degree of flexibility in order to respond to market demand.

[Officer comment: For the reasoning provided under paragraph 7.3.5 it is recommended that there is no change to this condition. It should be noted that the 2013 refusals also proposed two units]

Amended conditions

14.  The design and installation of new items of fixed plant shall be such that when operating the cumulative noise level LAeq Tr arising from the proposed plant, measured or predicted at 1m from the facade of the nearest noise sensitive premises, shall be a rating level of at least 5dB(A) below the background noise level LAF90 Tbg. The measurement and/or prediction of the noise should be carried out in accordance with the methodology contained within BS 4142: 2014.

Reason: To limit noise and disturbance in the interests of the local neighbourhood’s amenities and to comply with Policy DM9 of the Surrey Heath Core Strategy and Development Management Policies Document 2012.

Delete condition 20 (this is because the bench and phone box lie outside the redline plan)

Additional conditions

20.No works below ground shall commence until details of the design of a surface water drainage scheme have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Planning Authority. Those details shall include: 

a)     A design that is compliant with the national Non-Statutory Technical Standards for SuDS, National Planning Policy Framework and Ministerial Statement on SuDS.  

b)     A construction phase plan showing how the drainage system will not be compromised during construction (to include details of how pollutants and sediments from construction will be managed to prevent being washed into the watercourse).

c)     Finalised drawings ready for construction to include: a drainage layout detailing the location of SuDs elements, pipe diameters and their respective levels and long and cross sections of each SuDS Element.

d)     An exceedance flow plan that shows where water will drain to during exceedance or system failure

e)     A maintenance plan showing the maintenance regimes for each SuDS element and who will be responsible for maintaining these.

Reason: To ensure the design meets the technical standards for SuDS and the final drainage design does not increase flood risk on or off site.

21.Prior to the first occupation of the development, a verification report carried out by a qualified drainage engineer must be submitted to and approved by the Local Planning Authority to demonstrate that the Sustainable Urban Drainage System has been constructed as per the agreed scheme.

Reason: To ensure the Sustainable Drainage System is designed to the technical standards.

Amended informative

12. The applicant is advised to agree an alternative location for the public bench and the phone box, or confirmation that the bench and/or phone box is no longer required. Any necessary consent from British Telecom for the phone box’s relocation or removal should be sought.’

Clarification was sought as to whether the commercial parking spaces would be made available to visitors of residents in the evening. Members were advised that the commercial bays were not restricted. They were also informed that for the residential parking at the rear of the site there would be restricted by rising bollards or equivalent to ensure that residential parking remained private.

There was some concern regarding the effect of the residential units being close to an industrial unit.  Environmental Health had been consulted and there were conditions in the report to address this.

Resolved that application 17/0670 be approved as amended subject to conditions as set out in the report of the Executive Head of Regulatory and subject to the receipt of a legal agreement to secure 100% affordable housing tied to Ashwood House (17/0669) and a SAMM payment of £10,747.

Note 1

It was noted for the record that Councillor Edward Hawkins declared on behalf of the Committee that the Council owned the freehold for the land on the site of the application.

Note 2

The recommendation to approve the application as amended was proposed by Councillor Edward Hawkins and seconded by Councillor Vivienne Chapman.  

Note 3

In accordance with Part 4, Section D, paragraph 18 of the Constitution, the voting in relation to the application was as follows:

Voting in favour of the recommendation to approve the application as amended:

Councillors Vivienne Chapman, Colin Dougan, Surinder Gandhum, Edward Hawkins, Jonathan Lytle, Katia Malcaus Cooper, Max Nelson, Adrian Page, Robin Perry, Ian Sams, Conrad Sturt, Pat Tedder, Victoria Wheeler and Valerie White.