Agenda item

Application

Demolition of the existing buildings and redevelopment of the site at 30-32 Wexham Road, Slough, SL1 1UA to create 27 new residential units (11no. 1 beds, 14no. 2 beds and 2no. 3 beds) with associated parking and landscaping.

(At the meeting held on 28^th June 2023 the Committee had deferred this application for a site visit.  The site visit had taken place on 24^th July 2023 and was the application was therefore re-presented to the Committee for determination)

Decision

The Officer’s recommendation to Delegate to the Planning Group Manager for Refusal was put to the vote by members, noting an amendment to reason for refusal 1 to remove the contravention with Core Policy 7.  A member requested a recorded vote, the result of which was as follows:

Those in favour of the Officer’s recommendation…3 (Councillors Carter, Gahir and Mann)

Those against the Officer’s recommendation… 4 (Councillors Khawar, Manku, Satti and Iftakhar)

Those abstaining on the Officer’s recommendation… 1 (Councillor Naveed)

The Officer’s recommendation was therefore not carried.

(The meeting was adjourned between 8.26pm and 8.49pm)

The Committee deliberated and the following proposal was put to the meeting:

“On the basis that the harm identified by the officers in relation to height, scale and massing in relation to the character of the area and the impact on neighbours is not so significant as that it warrants refusal.  The benefits associated with the development outweigh any negative.  Therefore the Chief Planning Officer be authorised, in consultation with the chair and the Monitoring Officer, to approve the application subject to agreed conditions and the Section 106 agreement to secure affordable housing, education and all other infrastructure that is required to mitigate the impact of development on Burnham Beeches and that the Section 106 agreement be concluded within 6 months otherwise it shall return to the Planning Committee for further consideration.”

A member requested a recorded vote, the result of which was as follows:

Those in favour of the proposal…4 (Councillors Khawar, Manku, Satti and Iftakhar)

Those against the proposal… 3 (Councillors Carter, Gahir and Mann)

Those abstaining on the proposal… 1 (Councillor Naveed)

Resolved –  That the Chief Planning Officer be authorised, in consultation with the chair and the Monitoring Officer, to approve the application subject to agreed conditions and the Section 106 agreement to secure affordable housing, education and all other infrastructure that is required to mitigate the impact of development on Burnham Beeches and that the Section 106 agreement be concluded within 6 months otherwise it shall return to the Planning Committee for further consideration.