Decision details

Planning application reference number: 16/AP/3020 

Report: see pages 48 to 74 of the agenda pack, and pages 2 to 3 and appendices 1 and 2 of the addendum report.

PROPOSAL:

Change of use from a car park (Sui Generis) to residential (Use Class C3) involving the demolition of a 3 metre high boundary fence and the erection of a four storey terrace comprising six 3 bed terraced dwellinghouses.

The sub-committee heard an introduction to the report from a planning officer and drew councillors’ attention to the addendum report. Members asked questions of the officers.

A representative of the objectors addressed the meeting. Members asked questions of the objectors’ representative.

The applicant’s agents addressed the meeting. Members asked questions of the applicant’s agents.

A supporter who lives within 100 metres of the development site addressed the meeting. Members asked questions of the supporter. 

Councillor Damian O’Brien addressed the sub-committee in his capacity as a ward councillor. Members asked questions of Councillor O’Brien.

Members debated the application and asked further questions of officers.

A motion to grant  the application was moved, seconded, put to the vote and declared to be carried.

RESOLVED:

That planning permission for application number 16/AP/3020 be granted, subject to the conditions set out in the report and addendum report, and an additional condition for details of obscured glazing, which balances the amenity of future residents of the proposed development with the rights of existing residents to privacy and to not being overlooked, to be submitted to the planning authority for approval.