Agenda item

Report of the Chief Planning Officer and Development Director.

The Committee considered a report of the Chief Planning Officer and Development Director regarding the Corporation’s responses to consultations on the proposed Garden Bridge between Temple Station and The Queen’s Walk.

The Committee commented on the proposed consultation response, and requested that the response be amended to:

·         place more emphasis upon the concerns that the proposed bridge will have a significant negative impact upon night time views, particularly those of St Paul’s Cathedral;

·         request that a condition be made to the planning permission to limit the permissible height of the vegetation;

·         request clarification to ensure that the construction of the proposed bridge would not impact upon the Lord Mayor’s Show;

·         Westminster Council and Lambeth Council be requested to respond to the issues raised in the City’s consultation response to allow the City to consider this response and determine whether further representations would need to be made.

RESOLVED - That the detailed comments as set out in the report and as amended in line with the comments made at the meeting be forwarded to the London Borough of Westminster and the London Borough of Lambeth, following approval by the Chairman and Deputy Chairman.