Issue - meetings

DEFERRED

Description of application: Single storey rear extension and loft conversion with side and rear rooflights and elevational alterations

Objections had been received.

This application sat in an Area of Special Residential Character and the officer recommendation was that the application be permitted. 

The Principal Planning Officer informed Members that revised plans had been received on 23^rd November 2021. These showed the existing solar panels and the proposed elevation setting out which solar panels would be retained. These plans were available on line and had been circulated prior to the meeting. It was clarified that the removal of the chimney did not require planning permission. Members were also asked to note that no corresponding chimney existed on number 64. The central chimney that was shared by both properties would be retained.  

Ward Councillor Tony Owen pointed out that this application now stood in the Thrift Conservation Area and so would need to be judged by different standards. He also informed Members that the house was put on the market the day before the planning meeting. He motioned that the application be deferred, one of the reasons being that he was opposed to roof lights in a conservation area. A more pressing reason for deferral was that there was no indication on the plans concerning the location of the side vent pipe.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that the application be DEFERRED without prejudice as the site now fell within the newly adopted Thrift Conservation Area and the report needed to be updated to show this. It was also deferred as clarification was required concerning the location of the side vent pipe.      

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