Issue - meetings

PRIOR APPROVAL REQUIRED AND REFUSED

Description of application – Change of use of first, second and third floors of 30 High Street, Beckenham from Class B1(a) office to Class C3 dwellinghouses to form 15 studio flats (56 day application for prior approval in respect of transport and highways, contamination and flooding risks under Class J Part 3 of the GPDO)

Oral representations in favour of prior approval not being required were received.  Oral representations from Ward Member, Councillor Russell Mellor in objection to the application were received and also from Ward Member, Councillor Michael Tickner, as the former Chairman of the Beckenham Town Centre Working Group were received at the meeting.  Both Members were concerned with lack of parking

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED THAT PRIOR APPROVAL IS REQUIRED AND IS REFUSED

for the following reason:-

1.  No off-street car parking facilities are proposed within the curtilage of the site and there is insufficient information to demonstrate that the car parking generated by the use would not generate an unacceptable increase in the demand for on-street car parking, prejudicial to the free flow of traffic and conditions of general safety along the adjoining highway, contrary to Policy T3 and T18 of the Unitary Development Plan and the National Planning Policy Framework.