Issue - meetings
15/509461 - Garages R/o 48 Grecian Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 2TS
Meeting: 27/10/2016 - Planning Committee (Item 191)
Additional documents:
- 15/509461 - Committee Report, item 191 PDF 123 KB View as HTML (191/2) 83 KB
- Grecian Street Urgent Update, item 191 PDF 42 KB View as HTML (191/3) 4 KB
- Grecian Street Urgent Update_161027, item 191 PDF 50 KB View as HTML (191/4) 6 KB
- 15-509461_photos, item 191 PDF 1014 KB
Minutes:
The Committee considered the report and the urgent update reports of the Head of Planning and Development.
Miss Grainger, an objector, Mr Barnes, for the applicant, and Councillor Naghi (Visiting Member) addressed the meeting.
Contrary to the recommendation of the Head of Planning and Development, the Committee agreed to refuse permission. In making this decision, Members felt that the development would be a cramped form of overdevelopment representing poor design that would be out of character with the local area and result in poor living conditions for future occupiers by virtue of the oppressive rearward outlook of the three terraced properties contrary to advice within the NPPF. Also, the development, due to its scale, proximity and the height difference caused by the falling land profile, would have an overbearing and oppressive impact on the residential amenity of the occupiers of neighbouring properties in Waterlow Road contrary to advice within the NPPF.
RESOLVED: That permission be refused for the following reasons:
1. The development would be a cramped form of overdevelopment representing poor design that would be out of character with the local area and result in poor living conditions for future occupiers by virtue of the oppressive rearward outlook of the three terraced properties contrary to advice within the NPPF.
2. The development, due to its scale, proximity and the height difference caused by the falling land profile, would have an overbearing and oppressive impact on the residential amenity of the occupiers of neighbouring properties in Waterlow Road contrary to advice within the NPPF.
Voting: 10 – For 0 – Against 0 - Abstentions