Development of Prospect House, Hexham Road
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Having received negative comments from residents following Mr Dillon's planning application submission TRAG wish to retract the statement that local residents are fully supportive of the proposal to build town houses and flats opposite Dillon’s Fish Shop on Hexham Road (Prospect House):- See Prospect House development plan in the related documents section.
Local residents have given negative comments to Throckley Residents Action Group. Whilst some residents may consider the style of this build to be in keeping with the environment, issues have been raised, which are detailed in the residents concerns section.
Limited details are on Newcastle City Council’s website - accessible through ‘planning’ application reference 2008/0752/01/DE - and further details, when available, will be posted on the TRAG4U website.
Good news - Prospect House planning permission has been refused.
The application is was to be presented to Development Control Committee on Friday (20 June 2008). However, it was recommended that planning permission be refused for the proposal. A copy of the Development Control Committee Report dated 20 June 2008 can be found on the related documents section.
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Residents Concerns
- Concern regarding the over development of the site and the apparent insufficient car parking spaces.
- The 3 storey height of the flats to the rear will have an impact on the surrounding properties.
- Concern about the impact on the trees within this site, three of which are protected by TPO’s and, as can be seen from the aerial photo, will have to have their canopies severely cut-back to enable the new block to be built, with probable root damage from foundation excavation likely to cause stability problems. The large tree at the front of the site will also have to be removed completely to create the road access.
- Proposal appears to require the removal of the allotments (in use) to the rear of Prospect House for the creation of only 11 car parking spaces.
- The increase in traffic flow particularly in a location so close to a Zebra Crossing.
- With regard to design, the existing building appears to be designed in a sympathetic way, using similar materials, Prospect House dates back to 1895, is all of the new build in matching materials?
- Has a woodlands survey been carried out?
- The ‘perspective view’ supplied does not seem particularly accurate, Prospect House is 2.5 storey with the top floor in the roof, the new addition to the rear, is fully 3 storey without using the roof-space, however in the sketch, it appears that the new extension has a much lower roofline than the existing. Perspective views do reduce into the distance, but this one shrinks rather rapidly, not really showing the impact on adjacent property.
- With regard to “raising the profile of Throckley Village”, concerned that the new frontage to the site consists of 12 Wheelie Bins?
- This scheme will only have to comply with current building regulations energy efficiency, where the Code for Sustainable Homes is now mandatory at only ‘level 1’, the Henderson Water Treatment Works land was put on the market by Northumbrian Water (NWL) at ‘Code Level 3’ and ESH Group have been investigating how to reach ‘Level 4’, which is also the standard that has been volunteered by Newcastle City Council (NCC) on their own land that they are currently selling for housing development.
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Related Documents
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