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Minutes:
The Committee
received an application for full planning permission.
The application
sought approval for Roof extension
incorporating rear dormer, and conversion of existing house into five 1-bed
flats
and one 2-bed flat.
The Committee received representations in objection to the application
from the following:
· Ms Scott.
· Mr Wagstaff.
The representations covered the following issues:
i.
The application would change the
character of the area as it proposed a block of flats in an area of family
homes.
ii.
Expressed
specific concerns regarding:
·
Overbearing
and dominant design.
·
Overlooking/overshadowing.
·
Local
Plan policy 3/14 criteria were not met.
·
Bin
collection.
·
Insecure
bike storage facilities would attract crime to the area.
·
Car parking
facilities.
·
The
impact of drains on neighbours.
·
The flats were too small for
occupants to use.
·
Overcrowding
on the application site and the impact on residents’ mental health.
·
Residents’
amenities.
iii.
Referred
to a petition by sixty residents about the application.
Mr Tyers (Applicant’s Agent) addressed the
Committee in support of the application.
Mike Todd-Jones (Ward Councillor for Arbury)
addressed the Committee about the application.
The representations covered the following issues:
i.
Queried what was allowed under permitted
development.
ii.
The proposed flats would be out of character with
the area as Roseford Road comprises of family homes.
iii.
Referred to comments in his representation
regarding Local Plan policy 5/2. The application proposed an overdevelopment of
the site.
iv.
The Council had a car parking policy, but in
practice proposed parking facilities were not sufficient for the numbers of
expected occupants.
v.
Suggested the application could be refused on the
grounds of mass, scale, overlooking and flats being too small for occupants.
Councillors Blencowe and Smart proposed an amendment to the Officer’s
recommendation that bins, bike storage,
parking and the communal garden be included in the management plan referred to
in condition 5.
This amendment was carried
unanimously.
The Committee:
Resolved (by 6 votes to 1 with 1 abstention) 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 as amended.
Condition
5 reworded to read as follows:
Prior to the occupation of the flats hereby approved a Management Plan
shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning
Authority. This Management Plan shall
include the maintenance of the garden.
The property shall be managed in accordance with the approved Management
Plan unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Local Planning Authority.
Reason: To minimise the impact on neighbouring properties. (Cambridge
Local Plan 2006, policy 3/7).