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Planning permission for new and converted houses in the Broomhill area The Broomhill area has experienced rapid "densification" in recent decades. In the last ten years this process has accelerated. Much of the new development is of high quality and is priced at the upper end of the market - the main problem for the local area is the threat to the tree cover associated with this type of development - land which on a plan seems ample to build houses is often steeply sloping and surrounded with "forest" size trees. When the trees lie to the south of the new properties the houses are in deep shade for almost all the year - the pressure to lop and prune if not cut down the trees is therefore great. It is an issue that the city planners and local people need to address urgently if the very special visual characteristics of this outstanding suburb are not progressively to be eroded. From The
Banger Two planning
applications have been submitted concerning
Westbourne House at 17-21 Westbourne Road. The
first is for 17 apartments in the original old
house. The second is for the erection of five two
bed- roomed apartments with associated car parking.
Strangely enough parking is not mentioned in
connection with the seventeen apartments, but
putting the two applications together you get the
need for an awful lot of parking spaces. Where are
all the cars going to go in this crowded part of
Broomhill? What will happen to traffic when the
Westbourne Road Project with its one-way system
starts? Dec.
2000 The luxury town
houses being built by Crosby Homes on Oakholme Road
are now well advanced. June
2000 BANG members
who have been in Oakholme Road recently will have
seen that Crosby Homes have started building luxury
homes next to Betjeman Gardens. For a long time
now, however, there has been silence regarding
further plans to build on the green spaces of Crewe
Hall and the tennis courts of Stephenson
Hall. March
2000 Crosby Homes
Plans for University Halls and Oakholme Road Aug.
1999 Rethink on
homes Dec.
1997 An application
for alterations to 7 & 9 Newbould Lane to form
8 self-contained flats for 24 students has been
granted planning permission despite fears of
overcrowding and increased traffic and parking on a
very busy road. The use of the
former Blind School on Manchester Road as 15 flats
and the conversion of the former gym into three
flats has been granted planning
permission. Permission has
been applied for to build a four bedroomed,
stone-faced, house on land off Moor Oaks Road. (The
plot of land between the back of Dalkeith Terrace
and Marlborough Road.) There are
applications to use 1 Ashgate Road as three flats
and to alter the first floor of 473-475 Glossop
Road as two flats. The conversion
of the block of four shops on the South side of
Whitham Road to houses has certainly enhanced that
stretch of road. Sept.
1997 The conversion
of the former St. Mark's Church Hall in Ashgate
Road for the accommodation of 24 students has been
granted, despite protests from BANG and nearby
residents. The fact that there is no parking
apparently does not matter. Although granted in May
work has not yet started on the
conversion. A number of
applications have been made affecting the former
Blind School on Manchester Road. The ones made
so far have been for the use of the school as 13
flats, the demolition of outbuildings, the
construction of a means of vehicular access and a
car park, and the use of the former gymnasium as
three dwellings. The drawings show that there is a
plan to erect some six houses on the land behind
the school, but no application has as yet been made
for these. Nov.
1996 The erection of
5 flats and provision of associated car parking on
land adjoining 23 Southbourne Road has been
granted. The conditions that must be complied with
are however such that it will probably not be
economically viable. The building must be faced
with natural stone and natural stone must be used
for lintels, sills etc. and natural slate must be
used for the roof. We can only hope that it will
never be built! Aug.
1994 There is also
an application to build 4 flats in a two storey
block on the land in Turners Lane previously used
for the storage of plant and equipment. Despite
vigorous protest from BANG and residents, planning
permission has been granted for the building of a
block of six flats in the garden of 23 Southbourne
Road. May
1994 The application
for the erection of a block of six flats within the
garden of 23 Southbourne Road will probably reach
the Planning Committee on 9 May. Feb.
1994 There is also
an application to build a four storey block of 24
student flats on the site of Fairfield, 274 Fulwood
Road. The former house was demolished after a
mysterious fire on empty premises with all the
services disconnected and a successful appeal by
the developers against the council, who had tried
to preserve the remains of the building. Aug.
1993 A development
to which BANG have objected over the years is
coming to an end. The extension of planning
permission for the continuation of the use of land
for the storage of plant and equipment and
materials in Turners Lane by IRL Ltd. has been
refused. The grounds are that the access is
inadequate and causes a traffic hazard to
pedestrians and vehicles and that the appearance of
the site detracts from the visual amenity of the
surrounding area. These were the grounds on which
we objected to the original application! Better
late than never. Nov.
1991 Approval has
been granted for the erection of four flats and
parking spaces in Turners Lane, on the land
opposite the newly erected houses and offices. We
have objected to a recent application for an
extension of planning permission to use the same
land for the storage of plant, equipment and
materials, on the grounds that this would delay the
construction of the flats and that the present site
is an eyesore for the occupiers of the newly
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