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Meeting: 26/05/2021 - Planning Committee (Item 9)

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Members gave consideration to planning application number 142666 for approval of reserved matters for Plot 1, considering appearance, landscaping, layout and scale, following outline planning permission 139520 granted 16 January 2020 to erect 9no. dwellings with access considered on Plot 1, land south of Eastgate Scotton Lincolnshire. Members heard that one further objection had been received however it did not alter the Officer recommendation.

 

The Chairman stated there was one registered speaker. He invited My Bayley, Agent for the Applicant, to address the Committee. Mr Bayley made the following statement.

 

“Good evening my name is John Bayley of Keystone Architecture, I am the agent on behalf of the applicants.

 

The reserved matters application for Plot 1 Eastgate was submitted following the outline approval, as you know, for the nine dwellings on the site. I believe this was the last reserved matters application for consideration. The outline approval restricted plot one to a single storey property to ensure the scale was appropriate in relationship to the neighbouring property at number 32 Eastgate. The house as presented is a bungalow, with a low pitch roof, to keep the scale of the property down. As mentioned, the height of the roof at the highest point is 6.2 metres in height. This is actually exactly the same height as the ridge on the neighbouring property of plot two, which is also 6.2 metres in height. As also mentioned the land is lower, by around just over a metre, to number 32 Eastgate so this property will sit lower than the two storey building to the right hand side of it, if you're looking at it from the road.

 

As for some of the comments made by the local residents, some of the objectors, were not viewed as material considerations and some related to the wider development of the site, which has obviously already been dealt with. Taking the more specific comments in relation to the proposal, we take these, and those raised by the Parish Council, as predominantly to do with the appearance of the property. Most of the other smaller queries and comments I believe have been dealt with by the Officer in his report. The obvious comments that we seem to view, are the old ‘not in keeping’ or ‘out of character’, this sort of wording. Yes, this design is not standard developer style housing. The property respects the design code in the Scotton Neighbourhood Plan (SNP), which identifies the materials proposed should take inspiration from the local vernacular. Those materials, as you could see on some of the evidential photographs on the slides, included red brick and render, and slate grey slate tiles as found locally in this part of Scotton and the wider area. The SNP does not include specific design restrictions governing appearance, the design of a property is and always will be subjective. The SNP does, however, include a photograph of another Keystone Architecture property on Middle Street. It was another modern property of render and cedar  ...  view the full minutes text for item 9