Issue - meetings

REFUSED

Description of application – Erection of additional floor to provide 6 additional residential flats (2 no. two bedroom and 4 no. one bedroom). External elevational alterations to the existing building in include new windows, doors, in-set balconies and the formation of a roof terrace. Alterations to the parking layout, provision of refuse store at ground floor level and internal stair with bicycle storage and removal of existing staircase to the rear of the existing building.

It was reported that late transport comments from the applicant and comments from Highways Division had been received and circulated to Members.

Whilst Councillor Colin Smith supported additional suitable housing in the area he objected to the excessive bulk of proposed development.  Councillor Fawthrop also objected to the application.

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

4.  The proposal constitutes an extension of the development permitted under prior approval reference 16/04433/RESPA and would result in the development of 17 dwellings within the building which is considered to form a single development site; and in the absence of any provision of affordable housing, the application fails to accord with the provisions of Policies H2 and H3 of the Unitary Development Plan and of the Council's Adopted Supplementary Planning Document for Affordable Housing, in particular paragraph 6.3.