Issue - meetings

RECOMMENDATION:  Approval Subject to Conditions

WARD:  Southgate Green

NOTED

1.         The verbal introduction by the Planning Decisions Manager, including the following points:

a.  The application sought to change the elevations and external appearance of the scheme approved by the 2007 planning permission.

b.  Since the publication of the report, an additional 10 letters of objection had been received. These raised all or some of the following points:

Impact on Conservation Area

- outrageous plans that should be rejected because of the damage they would inflict on the amenity and enjoyment of adjoining house and garden;

- development should never have been approved when designation of Conservation Area was imminent;

- the developers existing consent should be rescinded and new plans submitted which are more appropriate to 1 Derwent Road and the wider Conservation Area;

- original building contained “all original features in tact”;

- the design of the building is like a pastiche of Edwardian style;

- the replacement building must look exactly like the original building;

- there is inadequate detail on the elevations including projecting brick panels around windows, inappropriate rendering, the absence of original oriole windows;

- design involves an oversized caricature of original turrets, the eaves of which do not respect eaves of original building and absence of sloping roof to dormer windows which remain of poor design;

- there should be greater use of leaded lights and stained glass windows;

- front door detail should reflect original and the proposed ground floor units should have their own front doors off the street in the original positions rather than via a communal hallway;

- strong objections to unacceptable parking and refuse storage arrangements are unacceptable as both elements could have been moved well away from the boundary;

- the proposals fall significantly short of replicating the original design of the facades of the houses that stood on this important site within the Conservation Area;

- Planning Committee must halt this outrageous degradation of the Conservation Area;

- the development will harm the Conservation Area;

- object to any development on the site which does not include restoration of a front elevation facsimile of the original;

- replacement proposals should bring characteristics to the Conservation Area to at least match the quality of the original especially those elements that were strong identifiable features of the original building;

- it is important that the block between Ulleswater Road and Derwent Road has a complete row of large houses with consistent scale and detailing which make a coherent period composition and a distinctive view from Broomfield Park;

- replacement development should not go ahead without strict criteria being applied;

Process

- how can it be a minor amendment when the proposals involve a new elevation with a completely different façade and on a completely different footprint;

- Council officers have shown bias in favour of the developer against the Conservation Area and have not followed proper procedures in dealing with these changes;

- no design and access statement has been submitted;

- plans do not show sufficient  ...  view the full minutes text for item 317