25/03911/OUT
Hobart Court 60 South Park Hill Road South Croydon CR2 7DW
Outline planning application (access, layout and scale only) for demolition of existing garages and erection of two pairs of semi-detached houses to provide four dwellings.
By reason of its layout, siting, scale and access arrangement, the proposal would result in an obtrusive form of development, appearing visually dominant and substantially changing the character and appearance of the site and its setting. The proposal would fail to positively respond to local distinctiveness and would have an unacceptable impact on the visual amenities of the area, contrary to Policy D3 of the London Plan, Policies SP4 and DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018), and the provisions of the NPPF.
By reason of its layout, siting , scale and access arrangement, the proposal would result in an intrusive form of development causing harmful and unneighbourly impacts in terms of outlook, loss of light and loss of amenity space for the neighbours at nos. 58, 60 and 68 South Park Hill Road. The development is therefore contrary to Policy D3 of the London Plan 2021 and Policy DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018), and the provisions of the NPPF.
The applicant has failed to demonstrate that the proposal would provide adequate fire safety measures involving suitable access and facilities by reason of the siting and access contrary to Policy D12 of the London Plan 2021.
The proposal fails to demonstrate that well designed accessible cycle and bin storage (including storage area for bulk waste) and suitable delivery and servicing arrangements due to poor access and siting at a significant distance from the public highway to the rear of the existing block of flats at Hobart Court resulting in highway and pedestrian safety. Therefore the proposal would be contrary to Policies DM29, DM30 and DM13 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018) and T4, T5 and T6.1 of the London Plan (2021).
The proposal development fails to demonstrate that it would not result in an overspill of parking to the CPZ from the garages, due to the lack of information within the Transport Survey on any parking taking place within the garages at the time of the survey or within the garages overall and what impact such dispersal on to the public highway would have on the transport survey results. Therefore the proposal would be contrary to Policies DM29, DM30 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018) and T4, T5 of the London Plan (2021).
The applicant has failed to secure through an appropriate mechanism (such as a Section 106 agreement) appropriate mitigations and obligations to ensure compliance with policy in respect to Sustainable Transport, contrary to Croydon Local Plan (2018) policies SP8 and DM29 and London Plan (2021) policies T4 and T9. As a result, the application fails to ensure that the appropriate off-site infrastructure is provided to mitigate its impacts. In reaching this decision the Local Planning Authority has sought to work in a positive and pro-active manner based on seeking solutions to problems in the following way: To assist applicants the Local Planning Authority has produced policies and written guidance, all of which is available on the Council's website and offers a pre planning application advice service. In this instance the pre application advice was not adhered to. The Council is ready to enter into discussions with the applicants to assist in the preparation of a new planning application via the Council's Pre Application process. The Local Planning Authority delivered the decision in a timely manner.