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.
Minutes:
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.
Erection of a two storey, detached, two bedroom dwelling house plus basement level with associated car parking/cycle store. (Copy of the report circulated with the agenda and appended to the signed minutes).
Mr Oliphant, Mr Broady (objecting)(Local residents) and Councillor Kolker (objecting) (Ward Councillor) were present and with the consent of the Chair, addressed the meeting.
The presenting officer reported an amendment to Condition 13 and an extra condition as follows:
Amended Condition
13. APPROVAL CONDITION – Parking provision (Performance Condition)
The car parking spaces as shown on approved drawing 07/435/H/10.D (to be updated at Panel meeting) must be laid out and made available prior to the first occupation of the dwelling hereby approved and thereafter retained for that purpose at all times with one car parking space available per property.
REASON
To ensure an appropriate level of off road parking is available for 97 and 97a Botany Bay Road in accordance with saved policy SDP5 of the local plan review and the adopted Parking Standards SPD.
Additional Condition
21 APPROVAL CONDITION – Approved Plans
The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans listed in the schedule attached below, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the Local Planning Authority.
REASON:
For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning.
RESOLVED that planning permission be refused for the following reasons.
RECORDED VOTE
FOR: Councillors Mrs Blatchford, Claisse, Cunio, Fuller, L Harris and Jones
ABSTAINED: Councillor Thomas
Reasons for refusal
Notwithstanding the amendments to application 11/01966/FUL the proposed development by reason of its design and close proximity to the adjacent Shorbus Greenway represents an overdevelopment of the site which would;
i) appear out of context, character and proportion with existing development in Botany Bay Road which would create a visually dominant hard edge at the end of the developed section of Botany Bay Road when viewed from the south resulting in an adverse impact on its rural character
ii) result in unacceptable shadowing and loss of light to 97 Botany Bay Road
iii) creates an inappropriate and unusable parking arrangement to the sites frontage which would have an adverse impact on pedestrian and highway safety
Taken together, these factors are considered to be symptomatic of an unduly dominant development, which is out of character with the existing scale and pattern of development along Botany Bay Road. As such, the development would prove contrary to the provisions of policy CS13 (1) 92) (11) of the adopted Local Development Framework Core Strategy (January 2010) as supported by saved policies SDP1, SDP7, SDP9 (i) of the adopted City of Southampton Local Plan Review (March 2006) and the guidance set out in the Council’s approved Residential Design Guide SDP (September 2006) (namely, sections 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, and 3.9) and the approved Parking Standards SPD (September 2011).
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