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REPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION MANAGER

First floor side extension, (as amended by drawing no. HM-18507-04 Rev A).

RESOLVED: That application 18/02684/FPH be GRANTED planning permission

subject to the conditions and reasons as set out in the report of the Development and

Conservation Manager.

Audio recording – Session 3 - 53 mins

The Principal Planning Officer advised that the following amendment to the report was required:

•        Paragraph 4.3.7

The word “not” should be inserted between ‘do’ and ‘consider’ so that the sentence

reads:

‘Given the relatively modest height of the first floor element, the distance to the

boundary and orientation of the site I do not consider that the proposed extension

would cause a material loss of daylight ….etc.  

The Principal Planning Officer (West Team) presented the report in respect of

application 18/02684/FPH supported by a visual presentation consisting of

photographs and plans.

Mrs Victoria Roberts, thanked the Chairman for the opportunity to address the

Committee in objection to application 18/02684/FPH as follows:

•        She was speaking on behalf of numbers 1 and  2 Standhill Close and number 3 Taylors Hill;

•        The application was disproportionate and overbearing;

•        Due to the topography, the extension would dominate the views from other properties;

•        Number 2 Standhill Close would suffer a significant loss of privacy;

•        The Applicant had suggested privacy piers, but this would increase the mass of the development;

•        The application should be considered on its own merit and not as an amended one;

•        The permission granted 20 years ago for an extension was before 1 and 2 Standhill were built.

Councillor Sue Ngwala sought clarification from the Principal Planning Officer

regarding the location of the extension and its impact.

Mr Grant and Mrs Liz Bannister, Applicants, thanked the Chairman for the

opportunity to address the Committee in support of application 18/02684/FPH as

follows:

•        In 1988,  planning application was approved for an expansion to the house;

•        This time, the initial application was refused in December 2018;

•        The size of the extension and the roof height were reduced;

•        Boundary requirements were met and privacy piers introduced;

•        The materials will be much the same as the house;

•        Other houses had been extended in much the same way

The following Members asked questions:

•        Councillor Kay Tart;

•        David Barnard.

Mr and Mrs Bannister advised:

•        That privacy piers reduced the views into the property;

•        That there were no windows to the side of the extension.

It was moved by Councillor David Levett, seconded by Councillor Tony Hunter and:

RESOLVED: That application 18/02684/FPH be GRANTED planning permission

subject to the conditions and reasons as set out in the report of the Development and

Conservation Manager.