I don't think they confirmed either way who would run it. Often with these type of facilities annexed within a separate development, until you get planning permission and the project is 'real', then you won't have a contractual health care provider at pre-planning stage.
It may well be that...
The majority of the committee is Labour. I think 2 or possibly 3 of them voted for the application, with 2 conservatives making the committee vote 5-5. Generally a chair will always go with officer recommendation when it comes down to a deciding vote.
I think as many Labour voted for it as against it. 5 votes for, at least 2 were Labour, possibly 3, along with Cllr Theobald and another. Didn't go down party lines at all, although some people seem to want to present it as such.
Of course there is a Plan B. They've piled a huge wedge in fees to get this far, sounded like the design only needs a bit of a tweak to get it approved, and a bit of a compromise on the S106. They only need one more vote to get it over the line.
I agree. You could see that as a positive result that 5 councillors are already in support of it. Doesn't sound any real issues with the height, size of the building, they just need to pimp it up a bit. I'd throw some green walls at it personally, maybe a green roof - that would soften all the...
Les Hamilton has been a chair of committee in the past, always been a pragmatic person on developments, as he said, design is sometimes subjective, not his cup of tea, but he wouldn't refuse it.
Labour always been more pro development than the other parties.
To be fair, the officer recommendation in front of them recommends refusal with one of the reasons being contributions. That would mean it would be a critical factor for the councillors to overturn the officer recommendation, and so you'd expect it to be heavily debated.
Whats the betting the reporter has both result stories already typed up ready to, and 2 tweets in draft too......only looks like they've accidentally tweeted one of the drafts....whoops.