Issue - meetings

Report DRR14/109

Members considered whether the Portfolio Holder for Renewal and Recreation should be requested to confirm the making of a non-immediate (12 month) Article 4 Direction to restrict permitted development rights to erect or construct gates, fences, walls or other means of enclosure in the Petts Wood Area of Special Residential Character (ASRC) and The Chenies and Chislehurst Road Conservation Areas.  The making of an Article 4 Direction was considered necessary in order to preserve the character and appearance of the above mentioned designated areas.

Councillor Fawthrop moved that the Article 4 Direction be confirmed as it was imperative that the ASRC and Conversation Areas mentioned above remain protected.  Councillor Auld seconded the motion stating that the character of the ASRC had gradually changed over the years due to the erection of fencing and gates.

RESOLVED that the Portfolio Holder for Renewal and Recreation be requested to confirm the making of a non-immediate (12 month) Article 4 Direction restricting permitted development rights for the erection or construction of gates, fences, walls or other means of enclosure in the Petts Wood ASRC and The Chenies and Chislehurst Road Conservation Areas in respect of the following Parts of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (as amended):-

Part 2, Class A: The erection, [or] construction……… of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure.