Issue - meetings

REFUSED

Description of application – Increased height of single storey rear extension, new front porch and elevational alterations PART RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION.

Oral representations in objection to the application were received at the meeting.  The Chief Planner gave an update and referred to application 17/02441 and the Breach of Condition Notice dated 21 December 2018 served in relation to it.

The Chairman and Councillor Peter Dean regretted the development had not been built in accordance with application 17/02441 and supported the minor alterations to that permission.

Councillors Marina Ahmad, Michael Turner and Simon Fawthrop disapproved of retrospective applications and objected to the application.  Councillor Dean informed Members that he was totally opposed to retrospective applications but his decision had to be based on the application before him.

The Chief Planner referred Members to the differing measurements between the two applications contained in his report and confirmed that the current application related only to that difference.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE REFUSED for the following reasons:-

1.  The proposed single storey rear extension, by reason of its increased height, would result in an overdevelopment of the property, harmful to the residential amenities of the neighbouring dwellings, thereby contrary to Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan.

(Councillor Peter Dean requested that his vote for permission be recorded.)