Issue - meetings

To consider application UTT/20/3401/HHF.

The Planning Officer presented an application for a first-floor side and rear extension with the proposed side extension constructed over the existing garage.

The application was recommended for refusal on the basis that the substandard parking provision, resulting from the extension would be insufficient and would not meet the adopted standards required for the dwelling as extended. The application had been called-in by Councillor Isham.

Councillor Reeve said that in the light of the photographs included with the application illustrating how three vehicles could be parked on the site, he considered that a pragmatic view should be taken in this case and that he considered the application to be acceptable. Members had undertaken a site visit to this property.

This view was supported by other members.

Councillor Bagnall proposed that the application be approved on the grounds stated below. This was seconded by Councillor Sutton.

RESOLVED to approve the application with conditions that the works be undertaken within three years, the car parking spaces be retained, the windows in the en-suite and the single casement window to the family bathroom to be obscure glazed as well as having window restrictors (as outlined in Paragraphs 11.15 and 11.16 of the report).