Agenda item

NOTE - Not to be heard before 14:00.

Poole Town

APP/18/00750/F

Major application for the demolition of existing buildings and Grade II listed brick pier gate and the erection of a mixed-use development comprising 454 residential apartments (Class C3) together with food and beverage units (Class E(b)), office workspace (Class E(g)), art gallery (Class F1(b)), museum (Class F1(c)), a replacement facility for Poole Amateur Rowing Club (sui generis), quayside walkway, replacement quay wall, landscaping and associated ancillary works including highway works, car and cycle parking. This application includes an Environmental Impact Assessment (Revised Description).

Poole Town

APP/18/00750/F

Major application for the demolition of existing buildings and Grade II listed brick pier gate and the erection of a mixed-use development comprising 454 residential apartments (Class C3) together with food and beverage units (Class E(b)), office workspace (Class E(g)), art gallery (Class F1(b)), museum (Class F1(c)), a replacement facility for Poole Amateur Rowing Club (sui generis), quayside walkway, replacement quay wall, landscaping and associated ancillary works including highway works, car and cycle parking. This application includes an Environmental Impact Assessment (Revised Description).

RESOLVED that the planning application be withdrawn as per the reasons given by the Interim Director of Planning at the meeting.

Voting: For – Unanimous

Reasons:

The interim Director of Planning requested that the Planning Committee withdraw item 6B, (application APP/18/00750F), for Land Between the Bridges, West Quay Road, Poole from the agenda and for the item to be brought back to the Planning Committee for consideration at a future meeting.

The scheme has been in for 4 years, has attracted substantial public interest (over 1200 representations) and there are outstanding issues relating to two statutory consultees (Environment Agency and Historic England) that it is important to review prior to the Committee considering the application.

The interim Director of Planning advised the Planning Committee that the applicant had requested the application not be withdrawn from the agenda.

The interim Director of Planning confirmed that whilst it is regrettable that he was recommending withdrawing the item at this late stage, it was not a recommendation he made lightly, and it was important to clarify these issues regarding flood risk, scale, massing and visual impact given the prominent nature of the site in the Poole Regeneration area, and the volume of public interest in the application.