Erection of a pair of semi-detached holiday cottages with parking

Refusal Reasons

• ✗There has been a previous application for the erection of a single residential dwelling on this plot (PA 01/2163). That application was refused on appeal where the Inspector concluded that "such a situation would be very unneighbourly to the adjacent residents and create a poor standard of development in a location where most dwellings are sited within plots that provide adequate space around the property". Whilst this latest application proposes tourist accommodation, the buildings would present a longer and taller structure to the rear garden of Primrose Lodge and as such, these proposed buildings cannot fail to be as, if not more, unneighbourly than the building previously refused.
• ✗The provision of three bedroomed tourist units in this location are unlikely to be required or desired for tourist accommodation for the whole of the year and as such, the concerns expressed in respect of the previous decision regarding lack of amenity space and over-development would be equally applicable to this development.
• ✗The development would be out of keeping in the streetscene which is generally, on this side of the road, characterised by detached single storey properties. Furthermore, the erection of properties much closer to the road than are the other properties to the south, together with the significant amount of hard surfacing in each front garden, would exacerbate this concern.