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(19/02488/FULL1) - 102 Poverest Road, Orpington, BR5 2DQ.

Meeting: 29/08/2019 - Plans Sub-Committee No. 1 (Item 18)

18 (19/02488/FULL1) - 102 Poverest Road, Orpington, BR5 2DQ. pdf icon PDF 176 KB

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Decision:

REFUSED

 

Minutes:

Description of application - Demolition of the existing 3-bed bungalow and erection of a 2-storey residential block of 3 x 2 bedroom and 2 x 1 bedroom flats and associated parking spaces, cycle parking spaces, communal amenity areas and waste storage.

 

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

 

The Chairman had visited the site and informed Members that a number of accidents had taken place in the vicinity.  She considered the site to be developable but the proposed application would be an overdevelopment that would generate an increase in traffic movements and similar applications had been refused and dismissed on appeal.  Councillors Kieran Terry and Kira Gabbert agreed that the proposed development was out of keeping with the local area and also referred to awkward junction layout and objected to the application.  Councillor Tony Owen showed Members two photos of the highway on his notebook and referred to the triangular plot that lacked amenity space and stressed that cars would have to park at the rear of the proposed development abutting residents’ gardens.  The principle of refusal of flats on this site had been established and the four Members objected to the application.

 

In summary, Members resolved to refuse this application contrary to the Chief Planner’s recommendation on the grounds that the proposal would be excessive in size and scale; it would overdevelop the plot and would be out of keeping with the character and appearance of the area, and it would fail to provide a satisfactory private amenity space for the future occupants.

 

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

1.  The proposed development by reason of its size, scale, massing and design represents a visually obtrusive and inappropriate overdevelopment of the site which would be detrimental to the scale, form and layout of the locality resulting in significant harm to the character and appearance of the area and surrounding development and be harmful to the residential amenities of neighbouring properties and the visual amenities of the area contrary to Policies 4 and 37 of the Bromley Local Plan 2019.

2. The proposed development would fail to provide a satisfactory provision of useable and good quality amenity space for the number of potential residents for five flats contrary to Policy 4 of the Bromley Local Plan 2019, Policy 3.5 of the London Plan and Supplementary Planning Guidance: Housing of the London Plan Implementation Framework.