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Weekly Planning Search - Mar 31st and April 7th 2010
95345 - 17 CLINTON ROAD
registration
date: 24/03/2010
Location: SD bungalow near the
NE end of Clinton Road, above Marsh Lane
Proposal: Single-storey
rear extension
Statutory Class: Householder developments
Consulted: neighbours 7, others
3
History: none
Comment: a fairly substantial horizontal extension with
a ridge line lower than that of the house
Recommendation: No action
95365 - TANGLEWOOD, WATERFORD CLOSE
registration
date: 26/03/2010
Location: top end of the Close,
backing on to Grove Place and Queen Katherine Road
Proposal: House: demolition of existing
Statutory Class: Minor Dwellings
Consulted: neighbours 18, others
10
History: 95113, registered 18 Feb
2010 but since invalidated. We commented
"Since February 2006, planning consent has been given
to developers for the construction of 22 houses on the former plots of just
seven detached houses bordering Waterford Close and Waterford Lane. The former
green and spacious character and distinctiveness of this part of the town
has in consequence undergone a substantial and irreversible change as taller
and more densely packed buildings have displaced mature hedges, trees and
open space. In the circumstances, and notwithstanding Policy CS2 (b) of the
Core Strategy 2009, there can be no reason which has not already been set
aside to oppose the replacement of another substantial house by two more in
the idiom of the new distinctiveness imposed on the neighbourhood by recent
redevelopment. The Society nevertheless urges the imposition and active supervision
of strict conditions to satisfy Saved Policies DW-E8 and DW-E9 in respect
of the important trees and hedges on the site, as described by Appendix 3
of the accompanying Arboricultural Assessment. Conditions should also require
the replacement of the substantial hedge which although not protected was
a feature of the existing property's frontage, and which has already been
substantially pruned. Redevelopment
of this area has now been in progress for more than three years, during which
both Waterford Lane and Waterford Close have been the scene of congestion
by contractors' vehicles. Adding the vehicles of another contractor to those
currently engaged in redeveloping the neighbouring site will both prolong
and increase the inconvenience imposed on the residents of neighbouring properties,
who would welcome any amelioration which might be imposed by an appropriate
condition."
Comment: This is interesting.
The application is described as "demolition of existng" but
is actually a complete application to replace the invalidated 95113 seeking
two houses with a single substantial house.
I suspected (and my man on the spot confirms) that the change came
about when the applicant learned that the Council proposed, under the Core
Strategy, to levy a "50% affordable" contribution of £162,500 for
two houses, to which was added for good measure a transport contribution of
£7,176 (to say nothing of some fairly arduous conditions concerning the wellbeing
of any bats, stag beetles and so on found on the site during demolition, which
presumably still apply). It seems
probable that the applicant is seeking to get round the new rules by applying
for one house now, which will be followed in a year or two by an application
for another on the large garden. It
is ironic that the 22 vast houses approved in Abbots Brook and later across
the road, all allowed under the Prescottian garden-grabbing regime, made almost
no affordable housing contributions while inflicting far more damage on the
town. It also appears that the increasing scale of
affordable housing contributions may have passed the point of diminishing
returns.
Recommendation: No further
action - discuss
95372
- 26 EASTERN ROAD
registration
date: 23/03/2010
Location: E side, between Western
and Middle Roads, backing on to Southampton Road listed terrace
Proposal: One & two-storey
rear extensions
Statutory Class: Householder developments
Consulted: neighbours 11, others
4
History: none
Comment: A fairly substantial side
and rear extension which doesn't alter the street elevation. There are two neighbour objections, but the
Society need not get involved
Recommendation: No action
95368 - LITTLE BELLMORE, 17 BELMORE LANE
registration
date: 26/03/2010
Location: opposite the top end
of Belmore Road, backing on to (and inset into) Wykeham Place
Proposal: Replacement conservatory; hip roofs to existing dormers; porch
Statutory Class: Householder developments
Consulted:
History: none (see comment)
Comment: Although it predates my
database this house, which used to be called the Old Coach House (one of several
in Lymington so named) was for many years was the home of Alastair Easton.
It was extensively refurbished and modernised after Alastair died and
was sold on a year or two back for a substantial sum.
Why anybody should want to spend a whole lot more on it so soon must
remain a mystery.
It is not a listed building but is an attractive house on the edge
of the Conservation Area whose appearance is somewhat compromised by the mock
Georgian estate of Wykeham Place into whose western edge it is inset.
The proposed alterations appear tolerable.
Recommendation: No action
95369 - 7 NORTHOVER ROAD, PENNINGTON
registration
date: 25/03/2010
Location: Long narrow plot on N
side of road
Proposal: Rear conservatory
Statutory Class: Householder developments
Consulted: neighbours 7, others
5
History: none
Comment: A standard-looking conservatory application
which doesn't frighten the case officer
Recommendation: No action