Issue - meetings

REFUSED

Description of application – Proposed outline application to consider matters of access, layout and scale for the demolition of the existing two storey dwelling house and the erection of a three storey block containing 7 residential units with associated access, parking, refuse storage and cycle storage.

Oral representations in objection to and in support of the application were received at the meeting.

It was reported that further objections to the application had been received.

Committee Member and Ward Member, Councillor Fawthrop, reported that the application breached various guidelines set out in the current Unitary Development Plan including:-

-  the character of an ASRC;

-  residential density;

-  spatial standards of new developments;

-  backland development; and

-  front and rear building lines.

A full copy of Councillor Fawthrop’s representation is attached as an Annex to these Minutes.

The Senior Planning Officer confirmed that ‘Policy BE10’ referred to on various pages of the report, should read ‘Policy H10’.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE REFUSED as recommended, for the reasons set out in the report of the Chief Planner with reason 1 amended to read:-

‘1  The proposed development, by reason of its size, bulk and layout would appear incongruous and out of character with the surrounding area and would be harmful to the character and locality of the Petts Wood Area of Special Residential Character and contrary to the garden suburbs principles in which the area is developed, contrary to Policies BE1, BE10 and H7 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006) and Supplementary Planning Guidance No 1 and 2, London Plan Policies 3.4, 3.5, 7.4 and 7.6 (2015) and the objectives of the NPPF (2012).’

The following reason for refusal was also added:-

5  The proposed density of the development would be unacceptable and unreflective of the prevailing character of development in this Area of Special Residential Character and would therefore be harmful to the character of this protected area, eroding current spatial standards and therefore contrary to Policies BE1, BE10 and H7 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006) and Supplementary Planning Guidance No 1 and 2, London Plan Policies 3.4, 3.5, 7.4 and 7.6 (2015) and the objectives of the NPPF (2012).