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20/03838/FUL - 38 High Street, Chesterton

Meeting: 28/04/2021 - Planning (Item 50)

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The Committee received an application for full planning permission.

 

The application sought approval for the demolition of the existing house and the erection of 3 dwellings.

 

The Committee received representations in objection to the application.

 

The first representation covered the following issues:

      i.         A hedge was removed between Alan Percival Court and 38 High Street last year due to the trees dying.

    ii.         Referred to the drawings and noted that a 5m high hedge would be put up and raised concerns about the height of the hedge due to the lack of light to the ground floor flats of Alan Percival Court. 

   iii.         Was looking at putting up trees along the rear of 38 High Street and would like to discuss this with planning.

 

The second representation covered the following issues:

      i.         The close proximity of the boundary wall and the height of the trees at 5m was a looming and overbearing feature. This would be oppressive if it ran the length of the boundary wall.

    ii.         The proposal to plant along the boundary wall would provide not only a screen for privacy but also a vista.

   iii.         Was sympathetic to the provision of a screen but did not want this to become oppressive to neighbouring properties.

  iv.         Was pleased with this application as the buildings were further away and closer to the High Street. Their only concern related to the proposed screen. Asked for a condition to be imposed which provided a compromise between the needs of the new and existing residents regarding the screen so that light could filter through and it would be a form of vista.

 

Councillor Green proposed an amendment to the landscape condition requiring the removal of the existing trees on the rear boundary and for specific details of the new planting on the rear boundary to be submitted to the Planning Authority for approval. Councillor Smart seconded this proposal.

 

The Delivery Manager Development Management advised against the imposition of such a condition as officers were of the view that the application did not make the situation worse and therefore the imposition of the condition was unreasonable.

 

The amendment to impose Councillor Green’s proposed additional condition was carried by 6 votes to 1.

 

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’s report, subject to:

      i.         the planning conditions set out in the Officer’s report and

    ii.         delegated authority to officers, in consultation with the Chair, Vice Chair and Spokes, to draft and include the following:

a.    amendment to condition 15 to include reference to two EV charging points;

b.    amendment to condition 21 to require the removal of the existing trees on the rear boundary and for the specific details of the new planting on the rear boundary to be submitted for approval to the Planning Authority.

 

 

 

 

 



Meeting: 21/04/2021 - Planning (Item 42)

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Application deferred to the next Planning Committee as the Committee  had insufficient time to properly consider the application.