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Planners urged to refuse proposal for eight flats
PLANNERS are being asked to refuse permission for a development of eight flats which would require the demolition of Garden House in Weymouth.
The scheme off Westerhall Road is on a site within a row of three existing two-storey flat developments from Melcombe Avenue to Greenhill.
Members of next Wednesday's Weymouth and Portland planning and traffic committee will be told that two objections have been received with main concerns being light blocked from a ground floor flat, the height of the building and its proximity to the boundary wall. They will also be told that a similar proposal was refused last year.
Efforts had been made to overcome objections, says the report, including setting the building further back to allow parking, landscaping, amenity space and bin storage to be rearranged, a reduction in height and other design work. But the report says the scheme is still overdevelopment of the site, with inadequate space for trees and landscaping, dominant parking and an overbearing relationship with adjoining properties. Councillors will be recommended to refuse the scheme because it would hit visual amenity and the area's character.
1:00pm Friday 28th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Old Synic, Wyke on 1:13pm Fri 28 Mar 08
[quote]But the report says the scheme is still overdevelopment of the site, with inadequate space for trees and landscaping, dominant parking and an overbearing relationship with adjoining properties.[/quote]
Although the Pavillion redevelopment does not directly adjoin other properties will the same rules apply?
I doubt it.
But the report says the scheme is still overdevelopment of the site, with inadequate space for trees and landscaping, dominant parking and an overbearing relationship with adjoining properties.
Although the Pavillion redevelopment does not directly adjoin other properties will the same rules apply?
I doubt it.
Posted by: graham, weymouth on 1:14pm Fri 28 Mar 08
Just get on and build it! People need homes.
Just get on and build it! People need homes.
Posted by: John Holmes, Weymouth on 7:54pm Fri 28 Mar 08
[quote][bold]graham[/bold] wrote:
Just get on and build it! People need homes.[/quote] Hear hear!
graham wrote:
Just get on and build it! People need homes.
Hear hear!
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