Planning precedent report

PERMISSION for works to the existing two storey building, comprising (A) alterations/extensions including the replacement of the unoriginal shopfront with a new brick clad and glazed timber framed shopfront with new illuminated metal signage, alterations to upper portion of front elevation to reinstate original brickwork and window proportions, demolition of existing primary roof to be replaced by a new hipped roof to match neighbouring roofs, with separate apartment access door and internal security shutter to café/restaurant space and sundry works, construction of a new flat roofed extension to the rear, to be part single-storey with 1no roof-light, and part two storey with 1no. roof-light & 1no. roof terrace to the rear, alterations to the rear façade, construction of a partially covered single storey pitched roof to shelter the restaurant garden to the rear. (B) the change of use of the ground floor retail unit (former post-office/credit union) to café/restaurant, sited within a conservation area.

Development will consist of a change of use and subdivision of existing 1 bed 1st floor apartment unit forming part of a mixed-use development to comprise 3 new medical consulting suites to form an integrated medical consulting centre comprising 8 consulting rooms in total and ancillary support facilities. No substantial interventions will take place to external facade treatment located in conservation area.

PERMISSION The works comprise the provision of a rear, first floor bedroom extension to the existing duplex accommodation which sits above a vacant ground floor commercial unit. The works also propose an adaptation of the roof to the existing first floor annex to the rear, which forms part of the duplex accommodation, in order to facilitate improved headroom. Ground floor works will consist of a Change of Use from established commercial use to a self contained 2 Bed residential apartment. It is proposed to construct the necessary ground floor accommodation predominantly within the existing commercial footprint to the rear with only moderate additional infill extension works required together with the partial subdivision of the entrance hall, internally off Berkeley Road and all associated external site works.

The proposed development is to replace the existing internal advertising paper panel with a digital display unit. The advertising panel on the external side will remain the same. The proposed new advertising unit has an overall height of 2.162m, a depth of 0.305m and a width of 1.34m, with a digital display area of 1.52m2.

The development consists of combining two dwellings into one house and new window openings to ground floor level of eastern elevation.

The development consists of the construction of a one-and-a-half storey extension to the rear of the property.