2024/0854
ANTON STUDIOS, 2 - 8 Anton Street, Hackney, London, E8 2AD
Change of use of two commercial units on the ground floor from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to Use Class C3 to create 2 dwellinghouses.
The proposal would result in an unacceptable and unjustified loss of employment floorspace in the Anton Street Priority Industrial Area, thereby failing to ensure the retention of an adequate stock of industrial floorspace to support Hackney's diverse, adaptable, and more sustainable economy. As such, the proposal is considered unacceptable in principle and fails to comply with policies LP26 (Employment Land and Floorspace), LP27 (Protecting and Promoting Office Floorspace in the Borough) and LP28 (Protecting and Promoting Industrial Land and Floorspace in the Borough) of the Hackney Local Plan LP33 (2020), and policies E6 (Locally significant industrial sites) and E7 (Industrial intensification, co-location, and substitution) of the London Plan (2021).
The proposed development, by reason of its lack of affordable housing contribution or demonstration that this cannot be met, fails to meet the borough's demand for affordable housing and therefore fails to comply with policy LP13 of the Hackney Local Plan LP33 (2020) and the Planning Contributions SPD (2020).
It is likely that the frequency of vehicles accessing the rear car park and the close proximity of the existing enclosed commercial/resident refuse storage areas would harm the useability of the indicated private amenity spaces to the rear of the proposed units whereby future occupants of the units would likely be impacted through noise, disturbance, smells and fumes whilst occupying these amenity spaces. The proposed development would therefore be contrary to policies D6 and SI 1 of the London Plan (2021) and policies LP2 and LP58 of the Hackney Local Plan (LP33).