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1 Summary of Main Issues 1.1 The main issues involved in this application are: • Whether the development is in accordance with the Development Plan and the GLA’s adopted Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea (VNEB) Opportunity Area Planning Framework; • The principle of a mixed used development on the site, comprising offices, housing, retail, hotel, hostel, student accommodation and associated community uses; • The provision of affordable housing associated with the development; • The acceptability of the proposed space standards for the residential units together with private amenity space; • The public realm improvements associated with the scheme and their integration with the wider VNEB area; • The potential regeneration benefits the proposal provides within the VNEB area; • The acceptability of tall buildings on the site; • The impact the proposed design, massing, scale and bulk would have on the visual amenity of the area; • The impact the development would have on the adjoining conservation areas; • The impact the development would have on the setting of the listed buildings; • The impact the development would have in terms of residential amenity such as daylight, sunlight, sense of enclosure and privacy; • The environmental impact the proposed development would have; • The acceptability of the highway proposals; • The proposed connection of the development to the surrounding VNEB area; • The acceptability of the development in terms of sustainability and carbon emissions from the proposed scheme and • The level of Section 106 Contributions and Development Infrastructure Funding Study (DIFS) with the scheme. 2 Site Description 2.1 The application site comprises 1.85 hectares of land made up of 3 key areas, which are all physically linked alongside the mainline railway – the Cap Gemini area, the Miles Street car park and the Wendle Court area. Parry Street lies to the north of the site, Bondway to the east and Wandsworth Road provides the western boundary. Miles Street, which links the Fentiman Road area to Wandsworth Road and the river. 2.2 The site is located within Vauxhall, on the south bank of the River Thames, and within the London Borough of Lambeth. Vauxhall is bounded by Oval to the south, Battersea to the west, and Lambeth to the east. Pimlico is to the north west of the site on the opposite side of the River Thames.
2.3 The larger part of the site is referred to by the applicant as being the Cap Gemini area, which is approximately 1.23 hectares and is bounded by Wandsworth Road, Parry Street, Bondway and Miles Street. The current building is occupied by various uses which include offices, warehouse buildings, a homeless shelter (Graham House, operated by Thames Reach) and a terrace (1) of listed and unlisted building (3) in residential use (these would remain) which are three-storeys in height. The existing hostel on the site is four-storeys in height, and the CLS office block in the south eastern corner is three-storeys in height. The tallest building on the site at five-storeys, is the Cap Gemini office building which is located along the north-western edge of the site. 2.4 Wendle Court which forms part of the application site is a modern three-storey terraced office building on a site approximately 0.14 hectares. It is bounded by Wandsworth Road to the west, where the site gains access from the southeast. This site adjoins a two-storey Cable and Wireless site which doesn’t form part of the application. Opposite the site along Bondway is sited 69-71 Bondway, a late Victorian building providing self-storage facilities (Use Class B8). 2.5 On the opposite site of Wandsworth Road, is the New Covent Garden Market Flower Market site, which is earmarked for a major redevelopment. An outline planning application for a mixed use redevelopment of this site was approved by the London Borough of Wandsworth in June 2012. Adjacent to the Covent Garden Market Flower Market site is the 23 storey Market Towers building, a largely vacant office building dating from the early 1970’s. The site has also been granted planning approval, for the erection of two towers at 58 and 43 storeys in height. 2.6 To the north of the site lies the Vauxhall Cross Gyratory system, which is a strategically important road system serving south west and central London. Within the central area of the gyratory is a vacant portion of land which has recently been granted planning permission at appeal for a mixed use development consisting of two residential towers. To the northwest of the site on the other side of Wandsworth Road is the Grade II Listed Brunswick House. 2.7 The application site falls within opportunity area known as Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea (VNEB), which spans from Lambeth Bridge to Battersea Power Station. It also forms part of the Central Activities Zone (CAZ) in central London. The whole site is highly accessible and benefits from a Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) of 6a, which is very good. The site does not fall within a Conservation Area. 3 Planning History 3.1 There is no current planning history on the site 4 Proposal 4.1 The current planning application is for the demolition of existing buildings (except for the listed buildings on the site) to provide a mixed use scheme comprising nine blocks ranging between 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 21, 30, 48 and 50 storeys, which includes 520 dwellings (57,244sqm Gross Internal Area (GIA)) ,
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