Council and democracy
Home > Council and Democracy > Decision details
Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee received an application for retrospective planning
permission.
The application sought approval for conversion of the ground floor store
to a 1 bedroom studio flat.
The Committee received a representation in objection to the application from
Mr Sakol.
The representation covered the following issues:
i.
The reasons for refusing the application in 1998
still applied today and were even more relevant:
· Lack of amenity
space.
· Lack of parking
provision (unsuitable allocation).
· Referred to
paragraphs 6.1 and 8.25 in the Officer’s report setting out existing traffic
flow and capacity issues.
ii.
The Applicant had infringed planning permission by
letting out the property and was seeking retrospective permission to mitigate
this.
Mr Hirsch (Applicant) addressed the
Committee in support of the application.
Councillor Gehring (Newnham Ward Councillor) addressed the Committee
about the application.
The representation covered the following issues:
i.
Several residents had contacted him about the
application.
ii.
Traffic flow and parking issues had not
changed/improved since 1998. The application would exacerbate these. The
parking space allocated was unfit for purpose as it was too small.
iii.
Emergency vehicles had difficulties accessing
streets in the local area.
iv.
The sub-division of 15 Derby Street will worsen the
amenity of occupants.
Councillor Hart proposed an amendment to the Officer’s
recommendation that a bollard be placed in front of refuse bins.
This amendment was carried
(by 5 votes to 0).
The Committee:
Unanimously resolved to grant the
application for planning permission in accordance with the officer
recommendation, for the reasons set out in the officer report, and subject to
the conditions recommended by the officers with the following additional condition:
PARKING CONTROL MEASURE CONDITION: “The development hereby permitted shall not be
occupied until an approved system of parking control measures (e.g. permanent
bollards or low rise walling or such other means of physical barrier) which are
positioned alongside the Derby Street pavement edge in front of the area
proposed for bin storage and access to both 15a and 15b Derby Street, which
forms a physical barrier to prevent any person(s) from parking a vehicle in
that space (not including the area shown as ‘parking under cover’ on plan
reference 14643-02 Rev B) has been submitted to and approved in writing by the
local planning authority. The parking control measures shall be implemented
prior to the occupation of the living space area residential unit 15b Derby
Street and shall remain in place in perpetuity.
Reason: In order to prevent parked vehicles overhanging the footpath and
causing an obstruction to pedestrians and to ensure adequate space is provided
for access to 15a and 15b Derby Street for occupiers of those properties
including for storage of bikes and bins. (Cambridge Local
Plan 2006, policies 3/7, 3/10, 5/2 and 8/2).
Report author: Michael Hammond
Publication date: 16/07/2015
Date of decision: 01/07/2015
Decided at meeting: 01/07/2015 - Planning
Accompanying Documents: