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(DC15/00140/FULL) Old Town Hall 30 Tweedy Road Bromley BR1 3FE
Meeting: 29/10/2015 - Development Control Committee (Item 37)
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- DC1500140 - Old Town Hall, 08/09/2015 Development Control Committee, item 37
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- DC1500140 - Old Town Hall - Map, 08/09/2015 Development Control Committee, item 37
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Minutes:
Report DRR 15/0100
On 8 September 2015, the Development Control Committee granted permission for the development of the Old Town Hall for hotel use and the adjacent South Street Car Park site for residential use. Permission was subject to the signing of a S.106 Legal Agreement with numerous clauses including one to secure the conversion and delivery of the Old Town Hall prior to the first occupation of the residential units in the South Street Car Park.
Subsequently, Members were requested to note that the Council intended to proceed in line with the wording offered by the developer for the clause relating to the secure delivery of the Old Town Hall element of the overall scheme.
RESOLVED that the report be noted.
Meeting: 08/09/2015 - Development Control Committee (Item 28)
28 (DC15/00140/FULL3) - Old Town Hall, 30 Tweedy Road, Bromley BR1 3FE PDF 344 KB
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Minutes:
Members considered the following planning application report:-
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Item No. |
Ward |
Description of Application |
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5.1 (page 15) |
Bromley Town |
Application for planning permission and listed building consent to enable partial demolition of the Bromley Town Hall building and replacement with extensions no greater than 3 storeys high to facilitate a change of use from Office (Class B1) to 94 bedroom hotel use (Class C1) to include hotel restaurant, conference, wedding and multi-functional space in addition to 2 independent restaurants (Class A3) fronting Widmore Road together with re-configuration of the existing access ramp on Widmore Road and provision of pick up/drop off in Tweedy Road and South Street.
Planning Permission for the erection of a 5-storey residential apartment building (Class C3) containing 53 units (18 x 1 bed, 34 x 2 bed, 1 x 3 bed), with basement parking for 28 cars and 104 cycle parking spaces upon the neighbouring South Street Car Park, together with associated landscaping and public realm improvements. |
Oral representations in support of the application were received from the applicant’s agent, Mr Mark Hoskins. Mr Hoskins made the following points:-
· Having been selected to progress the regeneration of the Old Town Hall, Cathedral Hotels recognised that as well as providing a unique opportunity, there was also a significant responsibility for them to deliver a new scheme which would respect the historic identity of the building and its surroundings. Extensive collaboration had taken place with key stakeholders including the Council’s officers, Historic England and CABE.
· The proposed mixed-use development scheme fulfilled the aspirations for Site C of the Bromley Town Centre Area Action Plan.
· The diverse mix of boutique hotel, restaurants and residential uses would add to the vitality of the town centre.
· The hotel and restaurant uses alone were expected to deliver 120 fte jobs.
· In heritage terms, the proposed hotel and restaurant use for the Old Town Hall represented a very ‘good fit’ and would provide compatible uses for the existing building resulting in minimal physical change to the fabric of the Grade II listed structure. It would also safeguard the viable reuse of a building which Historic England had identified as a ‘building at risk’.
· The quality of design had been a paramount consideration since the inception of the project both in respect of the changes to the Old Town Hall and the new apartment building. All stakeholders had been integral to the process of design, evolution and refinement.
· The proposals for the Old Town Hall would involve removal of the insensitive 1970s additions at the rear and replacing them with sympathetic extensions remaining wholly subservient to the host building.
· The enabling residential scheme upon the South Street Car Park Site had been configured to knit with the existing urban environment, being of appropriate scale and mass, retaining a significant landscaped corridor fronting Tweedy Road and incorporating a cranked main elevation to enhance vistas towards the listed Town Hall and East Street.
· The proposals complied with relevant planning policy in all respects. Furthermore, due to the ... view the full minutes text for item 28