Issue - meetings

2022/1025 Hillcrest, Pyle Hill

Meeting: 12/04/2023 - Planning Committee (Item 6)

6 2022/1025 Hillcrest, Pyle Hill pdf icon PDF 54 KB

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Committee considered an application for the erection of a single storey rear extension, raising of the ridge height to form first floor accommodation, rear rooflights and a front canopy (part retrospective)

 

Councillor K Davis, Ward Councillor, commented that he had sympathy with the Planning Officer proposal for this application and that he thought the applicant had been naive with what had been built on the site. That said, the Councillor suggested that common sense be applied to the application, which he did not consider out of character with the area, and had received no objections. Councillor K Davis suggested that nearby residents would be grateful for the development of this site to be completed. There were also arboricultural issues that had been raised, which the works may have affected; although Councillor K Davis commented the trees were currently still healthy.

 

Following a question, the Planning Officer confirmed that there was some screening to the property.

 

Other Members thought that the size, bulk and mass of this development were an issue and that there were no exceptional circumstances for this to be built in the green belt. Some Members also thought that if approved, this could set a precedent in the area.

 

RESOLVED

 

That planning permission be REFUSED and enforcement action authorised.