Redevelopment of the site to provide a 301 bedroom hotel (Class C1) and 4 new industrial units accommodating a combined total 9,562sq.m of floor space (Use Classes B1(b), B1(c), B2 and B8) alterations to access arrangements (including from Hatch Lane), associated landscaping and car parking together (involving demolition of the existing buildings on site).
Deferred from Central & South Planning Committee 24/01/2012
Recommendation: Delegated powers be given to the Head of Planning, Sport and Green Spaces to grant planning permission.
Minutes:
Redevelopment of the site to provide a 301 bedroom hotel (Class C1) and 4 new industrial units accommodating a combined total 9,562sq.m of floor space (Use Classes B1(b), B1(c), B2 and B8) alterations to access arrangements (including from Hatch Lane), associated landscaping and car parking together (involving the demolition of existing buildings on site).
In introducing the report, officers directed the Committee to note the changes in the Addendum circulated at the meeting.
A Member raised concerns about the proposed access to the site from Hatch Lane which could have a significant impact on traffic in the area. It was suggested that the access road needed to be longer than set out in the plans in order to avoid traffic and highway safety issues on Hatch Lane during busy periods.
Officers noted that it was possible to add an informative and alter condition 11 to ensure that the access road did not pose a threat to highway safety or create traffic problems on Hatch Lane.
It was agreed that an additional informative would be added as follows:
'You are advised that in submitted details in relation to condition 11 the Local Planning Authority will expect the submitted details to contain an amended layout and design of the hotel access point to minimise the potential impacts of queueing and ensure that vehicles manoeuvring into the hotel do not have adverse impacts on the operation or safety of the public highway.'
It was also agreed that Condition 11 should be amended as follows:
'Development shall not begin within any phase, until details of all traffic arrangements relevant to that phase (including where appropriate ingress/egress to the hotel car park, including vehicle swept paths, gates and barriers; carriageways; footways; turning space; safety strips; sight lines at road junctions; kerb radii; car parking areas and marking out of spaces; loading facilities; closure of existing access and means of surfacing) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved development in the relevant phase shall not be occupied until all approved works for the phase have been constructed in accordance with the approved details. Thereafter, the parking areas, sight lines and loading areas must be permanently retained and used for no other purpose at any time.’
REASON
To ensure pedestrian and vehicular safety and convenience and to ensure adequate off street parking, and loading facilities in compliance with Hillingdon Local Plan: Part Two Saved UDP Policies (November 2012) and Chapter 6 of the London Plan (July 2011).'
The recommendation for approval was moved, seconded, and on being put to the vote, was unanimously agreed.
Resolved that the application be approved as per officer recommendation, the changes outlined in the addendum sheet and the following additional informative and amended condition 11:
'You are advised that in submitted details in relation to condition 11 the Local Planning Authority will expect the submitted details to contain an amended layout and design of the hotel access point to minimise the potential impacts of queueing and ensure that vehicles manoeuvring into the hotel do not have adverse impacts on the operation or safety of the public highway.'
Condition 11
'Development shall not begin within any phase, until details of all traffic arrangements relevant to that phase (including where appropriate ingress/egress to the hotel car park, including vehicle swept paths, gates and barriers; carriageways; footways; turning space; safety strips; sight lines at road junctions; kerb radii; car parking areas and marking out of spaces; loading facilities; closure of existing access and means of surfacing) have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The approved development in the relevant phase shall not be occupied until all approved works for the phase have been constructed in accordance with the approved details. Thereafter, the parking areas, sight lines and loading areas must be permanently retained and used for no other purpose at any time.
REASON
To ensure pedestrian and vehicular safety and convenience and to ensure adequate off street parking, and loading facilities in compliance with Hillingdon Local Plan: Part Two Saved UDP Policies (November 2012) and Chapter 6 of the London Plan (July 2011).'
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