Planning precedent report

Attic conversion for one bedroom with en-suite. Dormer to the front. Also one velux window to the front.

The proposed development will consist of external and internal amendments to a previously permitted development under DCC Ref. 2295/19 (ABP Ref. No. 304448) resulting in the addition of 9 no. apartments, the effect of which will be modification to the aforementioned extant permission. The proposed amendments to the previously approved apartment block is as follows: (i) the relocation of north-west block main entrance at ground floor level; (ii) the addition of 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments at ground floor; (iii) the rearrangement of the north-west side of the apartment block on the first, second and third floor levels to accommodate the addition of 1 no. 1 bedroom apartment on each of these floors; (iv) revisions to the previously approved fourth floor, including the addition of 2 no. 1 bedroom apartments; (v) revisions to the previously approved fifth floor including the addition of 2 no. 3 bedroom apartments; (vi) car parking (54 no. spaces in total - 45 no. spaces at basement level and 6 no. spaces, 3 no. disabled parking spaces and a set down area provided at ground floor level); and (vii) bicycle parking (200 no. spaces in total - 145 no. spaces at basement level & 55 no. spaces at ground floor level). The proposed development also provides for all associated site development works, on a site area 0.30ha.

The development will consist of (i) demolition of 1 no. single storey-detached cottage, 1 no. two-storey detached house and all ancillary outbuildings; (ii) construction of a new part-three, part-four, part-five, part-six storey over basement green-roofed apartment building comprising 60 no. apartments (12 no. one-bedroom, 27 no. two-bedroom and 21 no. three-bedroom apartments) on lands bound to the east by Hole in the Wall Road, to the north by the Belmayne Distributor Road and to the west by the Parkside Heath residential development. The apartment building is setback from the north-western site boundary at upper floor levels and apartments are provided with private terraces at ground floor level, private balconies on the upper floors and have access to communal landscaped open space and bicycle/car parking areas at basement and surface level; and (iii) SuDs drainage, landscaping, boundary treatments, widening of existing public footpaths, provision of road signage and all ancillary works necessary to facilitate the development.

Erect 6 No. telecommunication antennas and 3 No. dishes supported on 3 No. ballast mounted support frames with an equipment cabinet and associated equipment upon the building rooftop.

Conversion of attic to storage including a dormer window to the rear, one velux rooflight and one velux cabrio balcony rooflight to the front and a new window to the side, all at roof level

The development consist of the conversion of existing attic to a bedroom with provision for 2No. windows on the gable wall and for 2no. roof windows to the front and for all associated site works.