Agenda item

PERMISSION

Description of  application--Single storey side and rear extension.

The officer recommendation was for permission.

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

The Development Manager Area Team Leader stated that additional comments and photographs received had been disseminated to Members. He informed Members that the application was located in the Knoll Area of Special Residential Character. He said that it was acknowledged that there was a land ownership issue associated with the application, but clarified that this was not within the remit of the Planning Committee to deal with.

He reminded Members that at the end of the day this application was just for a single storey side extension. This extension was three meters wide and this was a key issue that Members needed to consider.

The Development Manager Area Team Leader informed Members that if they were minded to recommend the removal of the side windows, then they would need to defer and seek permission from the applicant. Retaining the windows with obscure glazing could be dealt with on the night by adding conditions to the recommendation for permission.

Members having considered the report, objections and recommendations, RESOLVED THAT PERMISSION BE GRANTED as recommended, subject to the conditions and informatives set out in the report of the Assistant Director for  Planning and Building Control. The additional conditions were as follows:

4) Before the development hereby permitted is first occupied the two proposed High level  window(s) in the ground floor southern elevation shall be obscure glazed to a minimum of Pilkington privacy Level  4 and the window (s) shall subsequently be permanently retained as such.

Reason: In the interests of protecting residential amenity in accordance with Policy 37 of the Bromley Local Plan

5) Before the development hereby permitted is first occupied the remaining window( s) in the ground floor southern elevation shall be obscure glazed to a minimum of Pilkington privacy Level  4 and shall be non-opening unless the parts of the window which can be opened are more than 1.7 metres above the floor of the room in which the window is installed and the window (s) shall subsequently be permanently retained as such.

Reason: In the interests of protecting residential amenity in accordance with Policy 37 of the Bromley Local Plan

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting this Order) no building, structure, extension, enlargement or alteration permitted by Class A, B, C, D or E of Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), 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: In the interests of protecting the character of the area and residential amenity of neighbouring properties in accordance with Policy 37 of the Bromley Local Plan.

7. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (or any Order amending, revoking and re-enacting this Order) no change of use of any kind permitted by Class L (Houses of Multiple Occupation) of Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the 2015 Order (as amended), shall be undertaken within the curtilage of the dwelling without the prior approval in writing of the Local Planning Authority.

Reason: To enable the Council to consider future development at the site in the interest of local amenity, in accordance with Policies 9 and 37 of the Council’s Local Plan (2019).