Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of application – Proposed two/four storey rear extension with accommodation in the roofspace to provide an enlarged shop and stock room facilities with a total of five residential apartments.  Demolition of detached single storey building, boundary treatment, revised courtyard and parking layout, elevation alterations including an ATM to the front elevation and external staircase.

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

Comments from Ward Member Councillor Katy Boughey in support of the application were reported and circulated to Members.

The Drainage Officer had no objections to the application subject to conditions being implemented.

Members having considered the report, objections and representations, RESOLVED that PERMISSION BE GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions and informatives set out in the report of the Chief Planner with the addition of a further two conditions to read:-

18  Details of the proposed slab levels of the building(s) and the existing site levels shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority before work commences and the development shall be completed strictly in accordance with the approved levels.

Reason: In order to comply with Policy BE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and in the interest of the visual and residential amenities of the area.

19  Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 (or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting this Order) no buildings, structures, alterations, walls or fences of any kind shall be erected or made within the curtilage(s) of the dwelling(s) hereby permitted without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason:  To comply with Policy BE1 and H7 of the Unitary Development Plan and to prevent overdevelopment of the site.