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Planning Decision
Notice
DESCRIPTION :
Application for outline planning permission with some matters reserved
- cease car
wash use, demolish part single, part two-storey console building,
workshop and flat,
remove canopy and hardstanding, and fell three trees, erect 2 no.
detached and 2 no.
semi-detached dwellings and associated car ports, adjust ground
levels and lay out
parking, amenity areas, private drive and landscaping (landscape
only reserved)
LOCATION :
C Ambrose Motors 7 - 9 Colchester Road Bures Hamlet Essex CO8 5AE
SUBMITTED PLANS :
Location Plan Plan Ref: 17/12/01
Existing Site Plan Plan Ref: 17/12/02
Proposed Site Plan Plan Ref: 17/12/03 Version: B
Proposed Plans Plan Ref: 17/12/04 Version: A
Carport / Cartlodge Details Plan Ref: 17/12/05 Version: A
Tree Plan
DECISION :
The Braintree District Council as local planning authority has considered
your application
and gives notice of its decision to REFUSE planning permission
in accordance with the
above plan(s) and for the following reasons:
1 The Local Planning Authority considers that the limited area covered
by the
sequential test is unacceptable and that given the application site's
status as within
Flood Zone 2 and Flood Zone 3, alternative sites within the District,
with a lower
probability of flooding could accommodate the proposed residential
development.
The proposal therefore is contrary to the provision of paragraphs
155 to 161 of the
NPPF (2018) and Local Plan Policy RLP66 .
2 The development
could not take place without causing detrimental impact to the
character of the site by way of introducing back land development
to the site, out of
character with the existing development layout in this part of the
village contrary to
Policies RLP3, RLP9, RLP10 of the Local Plan, and Policy CS9 of
the Core Strategy and the NPPF. In addition, the deep span and roof
design for the proposed plots 1
and 2 result in a form of development whose bulk and scale would
detract from the
setting of the neighbouring listed building and the character of
the Conservation
Area, contrary to policies RLP95 and RLP100 of the Local plan and
Policy CS9 pf
the Core Strategy.
3 Plots 3 and 4 both
contain first floor bedroom windows in their front elevations,
which would offer potential views into the private gardens belonging
to No.5 and
No.11 Colchester Road, and therefore would be detrimental to the
amenity the
occupiers of these dwellings currently enjoy, contrary to Local
Plan Policy RLP90
and guidance from the NPPF.
A full description
of this document can be viewed on the BDC web site
Informal talks
are being held with the land owner, to find a way forward in re-developing
this site
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