Agenda item

REFUSED

Description of application – Demolition of existing building and erection of three storey building comprising 52 assisted living extra care apartments (37 x 2 bed and 15 x 1 bed) (C2 use) including communal facilities, parking and landscaping.

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

The Chief Planner reported the following:- Further correspondence in objection to the application had been received and circulated to Members.  Condition 3 and the condition relating to balconies should be amended if permission was granted.  No objection to the application had been received from Highways Officers.  Having considered the option to defer the application to reduce the height and bulk of the development, the applicant had decided that Members should consider the proposal in its original form.

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

1  The proposal, by reason of its scale, form, layout and site coverage, would constitute a cramped overdevelopment of the site, detrimental to and not preserving the character and appearance of this part of the Chislehurst Conservation Area contrary to Policies BE1 and BE11 of the Unitary Development Plan.