Agenda item

REFUSED

Description of application – Demolition of existing commercial building and construction of a three storey building comprising 3 two bedroom flats and 3 one bedroom flats with associated parking spaces, cycle storage and refuse storage. (OUTLINE APPLICATION with all matters reserved.)

Ward Member, Councillor Bance, acknowledged that this application was for two units less than a previous application and the site was suitable for residential use. In her opinion the proposed application was an overdevelopment with a degree of overlooking with insufficient parking and landscaping.

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

1.  The proposal, by reason of its size, scale, site coverage and lack of private amenity space, would constitute a cramped overdevelopment of the site, which would be detrimental to the character and visual amenities of the locality and fail to provide a satisfactory quality of accommodation for future occupiers, contrary to Policies BE1 and H7 of the Unitary Development Plan and Policy 3.5 of the London Plan (2015).

2.  The proposed development would lack adequate quantity of on-site car parking provision to accord with the Council's standards and would therefore generate an unacceptable increase in the demand for on-street car parking in the vicinity of the site, prejudicial to the free flow of traffic and conditions of general safety in the highway, contrary to Policies T3 and T18 of the Unitary Development Plan.