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15/2355/FUL Land to the Rear of 27-37 Romsey Terrace Application No:
15/2355/FUL Site Address: Land To The
Rear Of 27-37 Romsey Terrace Cambridge Cambridgeshire
CB1 3NH Description: Proposed development of four dwellings - two semi-detached three-bedroom dwellings and two semi-detached two bedroom dwellings and associated amenity space and facilitating development. Applicant: TBC Agent: Kimberley Brown on behalf of Bidwell’s Address: Bidwell
House Trumpington Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 9LD Lead Petitioner: Resident of 32 Romsey Terrace Cambridge Case
Officer: Sav Patel Text of Petition: See Below This Scheme goes
against the wishes of the local community and is therefore disempowering. The
applicant has failed to engage with in any meaningful discussion with us. We object to the above application to develop this back
garden site. It is an extreme example of “garden grabbing” and the proposal is
completely out of keeping with the surrounding buildings. The proposal contravenes the following policies in the 2006
Cambridge Local Plan: 1.
Policy 3/4 as it does not use “the
characteristics of the locality to help inform the siting, massing, design and materials of
the proposed development.”
Any development on these back gardens would represent an over-development of
the site and would be out of character with surrounding properties. 2.
Policy 3/7 as it will
not create “good
interrelations and integrations between buildings, routes and spaces” and it will not create “attractive built frontages to positively enhance the townscape where
development adjoins public spaces and streets”. It will not locate “entrances and windows of habitable rooms
next to the street” and it will not ensure the “the provision of clearly distinct public and private spaces and the
design of such spaces so that they are usable, safe and enjoyable to use”. 3. Policy 3/10
(Sub-division of Existing Plots) as it will “have a significant adverse impact on the
amenities of neighbouring properties through loss of
privacy, loss of light, an overbearing sense of enclosure and the generation of
unreasonable levels of traffic or noise nuisance” and will also “provide
inadequate amenity space, or vehicular access arrangements and parking spaces
for the proposed and existing properties” and it will also “detract from the prevailing character and
appearance of the area” and “adversely
affect …gardens of local interest within or close to the site”. It will also “adversely
affect trees”. Several mature and
semi-mature trees will be destroyed as a result of the proposed development. 4. Policy 3/11 as it does not retain and protect “existing features which positively contribute
to the landscape, character and amenity of the site…” 5. Policy 3/12 because the new buildings will not “have a positive impact on their setting in
terms of location on the site, height, scale and form, materials, detailing,
wider townscape and landscape impacts and available views” and the proposal does not “successfully integrate refuse and recycling
facilities, cycle parking, and plant and other services into the design.” 6. Policy 4/11 as the loss of several trees directly adjacent to the Conservation Area and the construction of ... view the full agenda text for item 4. |