Meeting: 06/12/2023 - Hillingdon Planning Committee (Item 29)
29 Minor App: Civic Centre, High Street, Uxbridge - 14805/APP/2023/3035 
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Installation of 2no. Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs) on the cooling tower roof, 1no. ASHP on the chimney roof with one thermal buffer, and 4no. ASHPS within the service yard surrounded by a 2.1m high, red metal louvre fencing and one thermal buffer. Replacement of existing timber beams and roof covering of the cooling tower roof. Installation of 9 steel beams to reinforce the existing steel frame in the plant room beneath the roof. On the chimney roof, the paving slabs and stilts will be removed to offset the load of the ASHP and thermal buffer on the supporting roof structure.
Recommendations: Approval
Decision:
RESOLVED: That the application be approved
Minutes:
Installation of 2no. Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs) on the cooling tower roof, 1no. ASHP on the chimney roof with one thermal buffer, and 4no. ASHPS within the service yard surrounded by a 2.1m high, red metal louvre fencing and one thermal buffer. Replacement of existing timber beams and roof covering of the cooling tower roof. Installation of 9 steel beams to reinforce the existing steel frame in the plant room beneath the roof. On the chimney roof, the paving slabs and stilts will be removed to offset the load of the ASHP and thermal buffer on the supporting roof structure.
Items 16 and 17 were presented together.
Officers introduced the application.
Members noted that bringing the Civic Centre up to a more environmentally friendly standard was critically important.
Officers’ recommendations were moved, seconded and, when put to a vote, unanimously agreed.
RESOLVED: That the application be approved as per officer’s recommendations