Council Minutes - Town of Cambridge

COUNCIL MINUTES
TUESDAY 20 DECEMBER 2011
(ii) Preparation of (and subsequent adherence to) a transport
management plan for staff and visitors to the building (the plan is to
include incentives for use of alternate modes including cost subsidy
for public transport fares and priority parking for car pooling); and
Note: If these conditions are not met, parking will have to be provided
in accordance with the Town's parking policy or cash-in-lieu paid at a
rate of $7,500 per bay.
1.3 The building height is to be of no more than seven storeys above existing ground
level (six storeys of office space plus a ground floor area with the capacity for a
café/restaurant and other services and facilities).
1.4 Building setbacks from all boundaries and Railway Parade to be generally as
proposed in the concept drawings and site plan submitted by the applicant with
the application.
Note: The land area within the ROW (see condition 1.6 below) is to be included
in the calculation of any setback that may be required in any future development
of the rear of the site. The width of the ROW is considered a sufficient setback for
buildings up to three storeys in height.
1.5 An agreement being entered into between the Town and the owner of the site,
under Clause 49 of the Scheme, to provide for a permanent pedestrian path
through the site.
The pedestrian path must:
(a) Provide for unrestricted public access (except for occasional closure
necessary to prevent the establishment of an easement by prescription)
connecting Nicholson Street and Railway Parade;
(b)
(c)
Be a minimum of 5.3 metres in width; and
Be constructed and maintained generally along the alignment shown on the
plans submitted with this application.
Notification of this planning condition must be lodged against the title to site land
under Section 70A of the Transfer of Land Act.
1.6 An agreement being entered into between the Town and the owner of the site
under Clause 49 of the Scheme under which the owner agrees to cede to the
Town without compensation for the purpose of a future ROW a strip of land six
(6) metres wide across the northern boundary of the site. This strip of land is to
be subdivided from Lot 50 at the time Lots 50 and 500 are amalgamated (to
accommodate the development) and ceded free of cost to the Town at that time.
1.7 The amalgamation of Lots 50 and 500 prior to the commencement of any
development.
2. Matters requiring later planning approval of details
The application is approved subject to the later approval of the Council to the following
matters:-
2.1 Siting of the buildings.
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