Agenda item

REFUSED

Description of application – Demolition of existing buildings and construction of a three storey building comprising 1 one bedroom, 4 two bedroom, 1 three bedroom apartments and 2 ground floor commercial units (Class B1), external car parking, landscaping, bicycle parking and refuse/recycling store.  (The site includes 15-17 High Street, Penge.)

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

The Planning Officer reported that a Daylight and Sunlight Study had been received and circulated to Members and the strip of land adjacent to the site was included in the application.

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

1  The proposal, by reason of its size, scale and site coverage, 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, H7 and T3 of the Unitary Development Plan and Policy 3.5 of the London Plan (2015).

2  The proposed development would lack an 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.