Agenda item

REFUSED

Description of application – Demolition of existing detached dwelling and erection of 3 x two storey, 3 bedroom terraced dwellings and 1 x two storey, 3 bedroom detached dwelling, with associated car parking and landscaping.

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

Councillor Alexa Michael’s referred to the two previous applications that had been refused and dismissed at appeal and pointed out that on neither occasion had the Planning Inspector intimated that the site was re-developable.  She had concerns that if the application were to be permitted it would affect an piece of open land in a heavily built up area where open green space was a premium and it would necessitate the removal of some trees to the rear of the site.

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

1.  The proposal constitutes a cramped form of development by reason of the number of dwellings proposed, resulting in an over intensive use of the site and retrograde lowering of established spatial standards and the loss of garden land and general openness of the site which contributed to the character of the area, contrary to Policies H7 and BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan, Policies 3.4 and 3.5 of the London Plan and National Planning Policy Framework.