Agenda item

(20/01046/FULL1) - Parkside, Luxted Road, Downe BR6 7JS

Decision:

REFUSED

Minutes:

Description of application - Subdivision of residential plot and erection of a detached dwellinghouse with curtilage and parking area. (Amended plans - red edging).

 

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

 

Ward Member, Councillor Richard Scoates, acknowledged that the design of the proposed development was sympathetic to the houses in the village.  However, he referred to the Bromley Local Plan whereby openness of the green belt was described as an ‘absence of development’, and his view was that this land was open and undeveloped and any form of development would be detrimental and would cause harm to the openness of this stretch of green belt.

 

He also referred to page 75 of the report that showed the nucleus of the village ending at ‘Snow Cottage’ and described the neighbourhood up to Luxted Road and his view was that the proposed development was not limited infilling but would expand the nucleus of the village and that infilling did not justify the application and housing targets should not overrule the deterioration of the green belt and he objected to the application.

 

Councillor Simon Fawthrop said if the proposed development were to go ahead there would be a degradation of the openness of the green belt and would therefore be a breach of green belt and garden policy of the Bromley Local Plan and he also objected to the application.

 

 

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

1. The subdivision of a residential garden to introduce a new dwelling in Downe Village Conservation Area would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt, resulting in a greater impact and further deterioration on openness at this prominent and open village location, contrary to NPPF paragraph 11(d), 143, 144, 145, London Plan Policies 7.4 and 7.16  and Bromley Local Plan Policies 4, 37 and 49.

 

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