DM2022/00004
39 Oldfields Road Sutton SM1 2NB
Demolition of the existing bungalow and detached single storey rear storage shed, erection of 2x two storey semi detached dwellings with rear dormers and accommodation in the roof space, rooflights to front roof slope, new vehicular crossover to/from Oldfields Road, new pedestrian access to/from Willow Walk, provision of car parking spaces to the front, cycle parking to rear and flank, refuse storage area to the front, new boundary treatment and associated hard and soft landscaping.
The proposed development would fail to respond to the established street layout and the level of intensification of this small site would not be a suitable size within the location, with unsympathetic truncated rear gardens, appearing as an overdevelopment of the constricted plot and causing harm to the character and appearance of the area. The proposal is therefore unacceptable in principle, contrary to policies H1, H2 and D3 of the London Plan 2021 and policies 1, 7, 9 and 10 of the Sutton local Plan 2018.
The proposed development would result in an overdevelopment of a constricted site and would fail to respect the prevailing pattern of development to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area, also being of poor design at roof level with an unsympathetic roof shape and box-like rear dormers. The proposal would therefore be contrary to policies D3 and D4 of the London Plan 2021, policy 28 of the Sutton Local Plan 2018 and SPD14 'Creating Locally Distinctive Places'.
The proposed development would fail to provide an adequate level of private outdoor amenity space for both new dwellings, and a poor standard of amenity for the northern-most property given the provision of an overly dominant off-street car parking space and the resultant unsympathetic 'L' shape garden, to the detriment of future occupants and their livelihood. The proposal is therefore contrary to policy D6 of the London Plan 2021, policy 9 of the Sutton Local Plan 2018 and SPD14 'Creating Locally Distinctive Places'.