Alterations and extension to dwelling to provide additional living accommodation

Why Was This Refused?

• ✓Extension's proximity, height, and length to the neighbouring dwelling Sandygate Cottage
• ✓Adverse impact on residential amenity of the adjoining property
• ✓Visual impact on the surrounding locality was identified as a key issue
• ✓Parking and access provisions were also considered
• ✓Decision made by the Planning Committee, consistent with the officer's recommendation to refuse
• ✓parking
• ✓access
• ✓The impact upon the residential amenity of neighbouring properties
• ✓Visual impact upon surrounding locality
• ✓Parking/access provisions

This application sought permission to alter and extend Sandygate House, a two-storey detached property on the western side of Clenagh Road, Sandygate, to provide additional living accommodation. The Planning Committee refused the application in August 2007. The key issues considered included the impact on neighbouring residential amenity, visual impact on the surrounding area, and parking and access arrangements. The formal refusal reason focused specifically on the relationship between the proposed extension and the adjoining property, Sandygate Cottage, to the north. The extension's proximity, siting, height, and length were judged to be unacceptable and unneighbourly in their effect on that dwelling.

The Planning Committee refused this application on 23 August 2007. The sole stated reason was that the proposed extension, given its proximity, siting, height, and length, would have an unacceptable impact on the neighbouring property Sandygate Cottage, making it unneighbourly.

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