EIR - Freemasons Road [Jan 2025]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA121224-6496

Date of response: Thursday 9 January 2025

Summary of request

Your request

Please note the applicant and the local authority are the same in this matter, namely the London Borough of Newham. We have reviewed the local authority planning website and no documents have been uploaded to the relevant application (23/00610/OUT) since October 2023, and therefore we believe the Stage 2 application which has been sent to the Mayor is not currently available to the public.

On 17 December 2024, you also stated that:

We are concerned about the lack of public access to these documents. In the interest of transparency, could the GLA planning team either provide the referral documents directly or encourage the local authority to make them publicly available?

Our response

I can confirm that we received the following information as part of the referral:

Committee report (October 2023)
Strategic Committee Report Update (October 2023)
Committee minutes (October 2023)
LPA consults

LBN Waste
Met police
LBN LLFA
Crossrail Safeguarding
Thames Water f. LBN Education
HSE
LBN Design
LBN Regen
TfL
Natural England
London City Airport
PLA
LBN Environmental Health
Historic England
LBN Aviation
GLASS
Crossrail 2
HS1
MMO

These documents are available via the council’s website:

Consultation: 23/00610/OUT | Outline planning application with all matters reserved for the demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a phased development of:- up to 650 new, replacement or retrofitted homes (Use Class C3) - up to 2,500sqm GIA of commercial, business and service floor space (Use Class E) including up to 200sqm GIA of hot food takeaways (Sui Generis Use) - up to 750sqm GIA of commercial, business and service (Use Class E) or local community (Use Class F2) floor space - up to 2,100sqm GIA for a health hub (Use Class E) - up to 250sqm GIA of nursery/local community floor space (Use Class E (f) /F.2(b) up to 50sqm GIA for bus welfare (Sui Generis Use) and associated open space, public realm, landscaping, servicing facilities, plant space, parking, access and highways works. This phased development is intended to be capable of coming forward in distinct and separable phases and/or plots in a severable way (This is a major planning application that affects the setting of listed buildings and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement for the purposes of Environmental Impact Assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017) | Land Surrounding Freemasons Road Canning Town London E16 3AR (newham.gov.uk)

Committee: Agenda for Strategic Development Committee on Tuesday 17th October 2023, 6.00 p.m. (newham.gov.uk)

We hold three further documents that are not published:

Custom House Masterplan Application 23/00610/OUT - Stage II Referral
LB Newham Draft Decision Notice (23/00610/OUT)
Draft Unilateral Undertaking

Please find attached a copy of the Stage II Referral. After careful consideration, we have decided that the draft Decision notice and Unilateral Undertaking are exempt information by virtue of the disclosure-exception provisions found under regulation 12(4)(d) of the EIR.

From: newham.gov.uk
Sent: 08 July 2024 13:53
To:
Subject: Custom House Masterplan Application 23/00610/OUT - Stage II Referral

Dear

Application No:	23/00610/OUT
Validation Date:	21 March 2023
Location:	Land Surrounding Freemasons Road Canning Town London E16 3AR
Proposal:	Outline planning application with all matters reserved for the demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a phased development of:- up to 650 new, replacement or retrofitted homes (Use Class C3) - up to 2,500sqm GIA of commercial, business and service floor space (Use Class E) including up to 200sqm GIA of hot food takeaways (Sui Generis Use) - up to 750sqm GIA of commercial, business and service (Use Class E) or local community (Use Class F2) floor space - up to 2,100sqm GIA for a health hub (Use Class E) - up to 250sqm GIA of nursery/local community floor space (Use Class E (f) /F.2(b) up to 50sqm GIA for bus welfare (Sui Generis Use) and associated open space, public realm, landscaping, servicing facilities, plant space, parking, access and highways works. This is a major planning application that affects the setting of listed buildings and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement for the purposes of Environmental Impact Assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017).

This application is referable to the Mayor of London under the following Categories of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008:

Category 1A: Development which comprises or includes the provision of more than 150 houses, flats, or houses and flats.

Category 1C Development which comprises or includes the erection of a building of one or more of the following descriptions— (c) the building is more than 30 metres high and is outside the City of London.

In accordance with Article 5 of the Order, I write to notify the Mayor of London that the above planning application was considered by the Council’s Strategic Development Committee on 17th October 2023. The Committee resolved to:

agree the reasons for approval as set out in this report;
refer this application to the Mayor of London (the GLA) as a Stage 2 referral;
subject to the Mayor of London (or delegated authorised officer) advising that he is content to allow the Council to determine the application itself; delegate authority to the Director of Planning and Development to approve planning permission; subject to the completion of a legal agreement under s106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), based on the Heads of Terms identified at Appendix 2 of this report and the Conditions listed in Appendix 1 of this report and summarised below.

In accordance with Section 5 (1) of the Town and Country Planning (Mayor of London) Order 2008 please see attached:

(i) a copy of all representations made to the authority in respect of the application;
(ii) a copy of the Committee Report, Committee Updates and Committee Minutes on the application prepared by an officer of the authority;
(iii) a copy of the draft decision notice; and

The Mayor of London is requested to decide whether to allow the draft decision to proceed unchanged, or direct the Council under Article 7 of the Order that he is to act as the Local Planning Authority for the purpose of determining the application.

Kind regards

Planning and Development

Inclusive Economy and Housing

London Borough of Newham

Newham Dockside | 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU

Useful links

23/00610/OUT | Outline planning application with all matters reserved for the demolition of existing buildings and the erection of a phased development of:- up to 650 new, replacement or retrofitted homes (Use Class C3) - up to 2,500sqm GIA of commercial, business and service floor space (Use Class E) including up to 200sqm GIA of hot food takeaways (Sui Generis Use) - up to 750sqm GIA of commercial, business and service (Use Class E) or local community (Use Class F2) floor space - up to 2,100sqm GIA for a health hub (Use Class E) - up to 250sqm GIA of nursery/local community floor space (Use Class E (f) /F.2(b) up to 50sqm GIA for bus welfare (Sui Generis Use) and associated open space, public realm, landscaping, servicing facilities, plant space, parking, access and highways works. This phased development is intended to be capable of coming forward in distinct and separable phases and/or plots in a severable way (This is a major planning application that affects the setting of listed buildings and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement for the purposes of Environmental Impact Assessment under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017) | Land Surrounding Freemasons Road Canning Town London E16 3AR (newham.gov.uk)