Issue - meetings

Report of the Planning and Development Manager recommending conditional approval be granted in respect of an application for a proposed development at the above address, attached.

The Panel considered the report of the Planning and Development Manager recommending conditional approval be granted in respect of an application for a proposed development at the above address.  (Copy of the report circulated with the agenda and appended to the signed minutes).

Relief from Condition 11 of planning permission 871053/23553/W to enable conversion of garage to living accommodation (retrospective).

Mr Johnston (Pointout Residents Group / objecting) was present and with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.

It was reiterated that the scheme was identical to the item presented to the Panel on 28th May 2013 when they decided to defer the application until the appeal against the Council’s decision to refuse the application for the change of use from dwelling house (C3) to House of Multiple Occupation [C4] (12/00705/FUL) was determined by the Planning Inspector. 

The Panel were informed that the Applicant had submitted an appeal for non determination with respect to this application and that in order to defend the appeal, the Local Planning Authority needed to identify what the Panel’s decision would have been.

RESOLVED

  (i)  to refuse planning permission due to the impact on the visual amenity of the property in the street (failure to use matching materials, window design, lack of solider course) and also the detrimental impact on the amenity of the neighbourhood owing to the impact on highways amenity (increased pressure on on-road parking).

  (ii)  tonote that had the application been determined at the meeting in May, the above was the decision that would have been made.