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Resolved that planning
application submitted under Section 73 of the Town
& Country Planning Act 1990 in connection with the planning
permission dated 22/12/2022 (Reference: 22/1017/F) be
GRANTED for the demolition of the existing buildings and
structure and the phased redevelopment of the site for a mixed-use
scheme comprising a multipurpose leisure centre (Class F2),
commercial and business uses (Class E), residential dwellings
(Class C3), new public square and new public realm with hard and
soft landscape works, highways works, parking, access and servicing
arrangements, and associated works. Nad that was notedt that the
amendment proposes a modification to Condition 2, 3, 6, 25, 26, 28,
33, 41, 51, 52, and 59 to increase building heights, increase
quantum of residential units, reduce commercial space, and make
other associated internal and external changes.
 
Consent subject to
(i)       
Referral of the application to the Mayor of London
as required under the terms of The Town and Country Planning (Mayor
of London) Order 2008;
 
(ii)     
The prior completion of a Section 111 (S111) Legal
Agreement   of the Local Government Act 1972 between the
Council local planning authority (LPA) and Hill Residential Limited
requiring that company and any other relevant interest holders upon
obtaining relevant interests to enter an agreement or a
confirmatory deed under S106 of the Town and Country Planning Act
1990 containing the planning obligations summarised in the heads of
terms set out in this report relevant to the parts of the
development other than the leisure centre (Section 26);
and;
 
(iii)    
The prior completion of a Directors’ Agreement
(as set out in section 26) resecuring the contributions and other
commitments agreed under planning permission ref:22/1017/F dated
22/12/2022 for the Leisure Centre (Phase1).
 
(iv)    
Conditions set out in Appendix 2 and the addendum;
and
 
(vi)  A statement being placed on the
Statutory Register confirming the main reasons and consideration on
which the decision was based were those set out in the report of
the Director of Place and Growth as required by Regulation 30 of
the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment)
Regulations 2017.
 
That the Assistant Director
(Planning & Building Control) be authroised 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 S111 agreement
(including appended documents) and form of the planning obligations
as set out in Section 26 of the report, its addendum and the
minutes of this Planning Board meeting
 
(iii)    
Consider, in the event that the S111 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 agreement(s) to secure Affordable
Housing, financial and non-financial contributions including for
Employment, Skills and Training, Transport and Highways and Carbon
Offsetting, the development fails to maximise the delivery of
affordable housing and fails to mitigate its impact on local
services, amenities and infrastructure contrary to London Plan
policies SD1, H4, H5, H6, H10, E11, T1, 
SI 2 and DF1, policies H3, E1, EA(c), IM1, IM4, IM(a), IM(b) and
IM(c) of the Royal Greenwich Local Plan: Core Strategy with
Detailed Policies (Adopted July 2014), the Woolwich Town Centre
Masterplan SPD (adopted April 2012) and the Planning Obligations
(s106) Guidance SPD (adopted July 2015).