Riverside House, Beresford Street, Woolwich, London, SE18 6BU - 24/2813/F

January 14, 2025 Planning Board (Committee) Approved View on council website

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Summary

...to grant full planning permission, subject to a Section 106 legal agreement and conditions, for the demolition, refurbishment, and extension of buildings at Riverside House to create student accommodation, a hotel, commercial space, and associated amenities.

Full council record
Content

Resolved that full planning permission be GRANTED for
the demolition of link structure and removal of
external staircase, refurbishment and extensions of existing
buildings, comprising Purpose Built Student Accommodation (Use
Class Sui Generis), with ancillary spaces, external amenity space,
basement cycle store with plant and ground floor commercial /
café floorspace (Use Class E), and comprising Hotel (Use
Class C1) with ancillary spaces and ground floor commercial /
retail floorspace (Use Class E), public realm works, along with
other associated plant space, refuse/recycling store, landscaping,
servicing zones, disabled car parking, cycle parking and associated
works.
 
Subject to:
(i)       
The satisfactory completion of a Section 106 (S106)
Legal Agreement (obligations set out in Section 25 of the report)
and
 
(ii)     
Conditions set out in Appendix 2 of the report and
the addendum report.
 
That the Assistant Director
(Planning & Building Control) be authorised to:
(i)       
Make any minor changes to the detailed wording of
the recommended conditions as set out in Appendix 2 of the report
and its addendum and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting,
where the Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control)
considers it appropriate, before issuing the final decision
notice
 
(ii)     
Finalise the detailed terms of the section 106
agreement (including appended documents) and form of the planning
obligations as set out in Section 24 of the report, its addendum
and the minutes of this Planning Board meeting
 
(iii)    
Consider, in the event that the Section 106
Agreement is not completed within three (3) months of the date of
this Planning Board resolution, whether consent should be refused
on the grounds that the agreement has not been completed within the
appropriate timescale, and that the proposals are unacceptable in
the absence of the recommended planning obligations; and if the
Assistant Director (Planning & Building Control) considers it
appropriate, to determine the application with reasons for refusal
which will include the following:

·     
In the absence of a legal agreement to secure the
necessary obligations regarding affordable housing, health
infrastructure, transport and highway works, public realm
improvements, employment and training, the development would fail
to mitigate its impact on local services, amenities and
infrastructure, environmental sustainability and open space
contrary to policies H1, H4, H5, H7,, S2, SI 2, SI 3, T2, T4, T9
and DF1 of the London Plan (2021) and H3, H5, EA(c), E1, IM1,
IM4,  and IM(b) of the Royal Greenwich
Local Plan: Core Strategy with Detailed Policies (Adopted July
2014), and the Planning Obligations (s106) Guidance SPD (July
2015).

Related Meeting

Planning Board - Tuesday, 14th January, 2025 6.30 pm on January 21, 2025

Supporting Documents

Riverside House - 24.2813.F - Report.pdf
Appendices to Riverside House - 24.2813.F.pdf
Item 5 - Addendum to Riverside House Ref-24.2813.F.pdf

Details

OutcomeRecommendations Approved
Decision date14 Jan 2025