552-bed student accommodation at Loughborough University, Loughborough

“The proposal is for full planning permission for approximately 552 self-catered student accommodation units, complemented by amenity areas and quiet study zones. The units are provided within 5 accommodation blocks set either side of an east- west axis which has been identified as a ‘desire line’ for movement through the campus.”

“To the west of the site is a series of single-storey buildings that are the Facilities Management Workshop and stores. Adjacent to the site to the west are allotments (which are to be retained). To the north of the site lies a Garden of Remembrance, the Walled Garden and Summerhouse and the Gardener’s Cottage. Both the Walled Garden and the Gardener’s Cottage are Grade II listed.”

“The site is bounded by educational buildings to the north and east. Buildings adjacent to the site include the Wavy Top Building (2-storeys), which accommodates the Department of Sports, Exercise and Health Sciences; James France Building (2- storeys), which houses lecture theatres, teaching spaces and computer labs and the Morag Bell Building (2-storeys) which houses laboratories, teaching spaces and offices, and the Edward Herbert Building (3-storeys).”

“Application site Reference Description Decision & Date There are numerous applications relating to the development of the University over time, but none are considered to directly impact upon consideration of this application.”

“The blocks will overbear upon houses adjacent and nearby owning to their scale and positioning. This sis especially the case regarding blocks 762 and 763 (with detailed calculations of relevant measurements of the height of the building and ‘separation distances’ provided) resulting in a failure to observe the distances specified in the Council’s adopted design DPD for overbearing.”

“Planning policy • Conflicts with Charnwood Local Plan Core Strategy Development Plan document (2015) states in Policy CS2 that the proposed development should: ‘have respect for and enhance the character of an area through the scale, density, massing, height, landscape, layout, materials and access arrangements of the proposals, ‘protect the amenity of people who live or work nearby and ‘add to the quality of an area’, • The Design SPD confirms that the separation distance…”

“(i) the determination of whether the contributions requested by the Local Highway Authority in relation to Highways matters are CIL compliant and therefore required to be secured by any section 106 agreement, to be delegated to officers in consultation with the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Plans Committee, and that if a section 106 agreement is required that authority be given to the Head of Planning and Growth and the Head of Legal and Electoral Services to enter into an…”

“(ii) subject to the completion of the section 106 agreement in (i) above, if required, planning permission be granted conditionally subject to the imposition of the conditions and reasons as set out in the report of the Head of Planning and Growth and as amended in the Extras Report, and that the Head of Planning and Growth, in consultation with the Chair of the Plans Committee for amendments to the conditions and reasons, be given delegated authority to determine the final…”