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Decision Maker: Planning
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Committee
received an application for full planning permission.
The
application sought approval for a ground floor rear and side extension and
change of use to form three flats.
Mr McKeown (Applicant’s Agent) addressed the Committee in support of the
application.
Councillor Ashton (Cherry Hinton Ward
Councillor) addressed the Committee about the application.
The representation covered the following issues:
i.
Referred to paragraph 8.4 of the Officer’s report
which set out Policy 5/2 of the Cambridge Local Plan (2006) stated the
conversion of non-residential buildings into self-contained dwellings would be
permitted; and exceptions to this.
ii.
Suggested the development should not go ahead as it
does not overcome 2 of the exception criteria:
a.
The likely impact upon on-street parking would be
unacceptable. The County Council Highways Authority had concerns about this.
b.
The proposal would fail to provide for satisfactory
refuse bin storage or cycle parking.
·
Details regarding arrangements for the above should
be submitted before planning permission was granted.
iii.
The report was unclear which flat got the sole
parking space on-site.
iv.
Referred to the refusal decision given against an
application in Greville Road. It was pertinent to
this application.
The Committee:
Resolved (4 votes
to 4 – and on the Chair’s casting vote) 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,
condition 11 to be
re-worded as follows:
“The car parking space immediately adjacent to the living room window of
flat no.1 of the development hereby permitted shall be used solely by the
future occupants of flat no.1. The car parking space
shall be retained for use by the future occupants of flat no.1 unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the local planning authority.
Reason: To provide a high quality living
environment for future occupiers (Cambridge Local Plan policies 3/4 and 5/2).”
Report author: Michael Hammond
Publication date: 21/11/2017
Date of decision: 01/11/2017
Decided at meeting: 01/11/2017 - Planning
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