Issue - meetings

REFUSED

Description of application - Fourth floor extension to Nos.251-259 High Street Orpington to provide 3 three bedroom, 1 two bedroom and 5 one bedroom flats together with alterations to existing building including replacement and addition of windows, installation of render to facades, repositioning and part enclosure of fire escape stair and erection of terraces at 2nd and 3rd floor levels.

Oral representations in support of the application were received.  Oral representations from Ward Member, Councillor William Huntington-Thresher, in objection to the application were received at the meeting. 

Councillor Huntington-Thresher objected to the application as a number of the flats proposed at the rear of the development would overlook Homefield Rise and Lancing Road and he also objected to the bulk of the rearward projection and referred to the last sentence of paragraph 10 on page 229 of the Chief Planner’s report.

It was reported that late objections to the application had been received and supplementary information had also been received from a local resident and circulated to Members.

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 a further reason to read:-

3.  The proposal constitutes an extension of the development permitted under prior approval reference 17/00266/RESPA and would result in the development of 43 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.