Agenda item

REFUSED

Description of application – Demolition of single storey side extension and erection of a three storey three bedroom end of terrace house with associated vehicle access, parking spaces, landscaping and single storey rear extension to No. 18.

Oral representations in objection to and in support of the application were received at the meeting.  A statement of objections and a letter of support had been received and circulated to Members. Comments from Ward Member, Councillor Katy Boughey, in objection to the application were read and circulated to Members. 

In Councillors Russell Mellor and Neil Reddin’s opinions the proposed development was backland/garden development and would be against the Unitary Development Policy. Councillor Samaris Huntington-Thresher agreed with Councillors Mellor and Reddin and in her view one parking space would be insufficient.

Councillor Michael Turner and Peter Dean supported the application and referred to the second paragraph on page 103 of the Chief Planner’s report that stated, ‘the provision of a new residential house on the land was acceptable in principle’.

The Chief Planner’s representative confirmed that the tree nearest to the proposed development would be one metre away.

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

1.  The proposed development would appear as an overbearing, incongruous and harmful form of development on this prominent corner plot that would fail to complement the cohesive pattern and layout of development in the area, harmful to the Chislehurst Conservation Area. As such, the proposal is contrary to the objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework (2012), 3.4, 3.5 and 7.6 of the London Plan (2015) and Policies BE1, BE11 H1, H7, H8, H9, H10 and T18 of the Unitary Development Plan (2006).

(Councillor Peter Dean asked for his vote against refusal to be recorded.)