A planning application for eight homes in an East Riding village has been refused by East Riding Council. The council referenced a number of insufficiencies with the plans when explaining the refusal.
The application detailed plans to build the homes off North Street in the East Riding village of Aldbrough. The development would have included seven two-storey and one single-storey homes.
Plans show how the homes would have been built on an area of land to the east of a recently built development on Butler Close. The access to the development would have come from the Butler Close development, which is itself off North Street.
Prior to the application being rejected by East Riding Council, a number of concerns were raised by Aldbourgh Parish Council in the form of an objection which was submitted on behalf of the Parish Council on the East Riding Planning Portal. One of the points raised in the objection relates to the parking facilities in the development.
The objection stated the plans included “inadequate parking at each property” which they say could have caused “issues with access for any vehicles due to on street parking.” The comment adds: “There is a lack of public transport in the area and with the majority of jobs being based outside the village residents parking is a premium.”
East Riding Council’s planning officer shared these concerns and, in the Decisions Record, wrote “the provision of insufficient parking for the development would fail to ensure that safe and suitable access to the site can be achieved for all users and would result in an unacceptable impact on highway safety.”
East Riding Council also took issue with a supposed lack of quality open/green space in the development. This point was also raised in the Parish Council’s comment, which claimed that “the future of the site would benefit” from additional open space.
Overall, six of the houses would have had three bedrooms whilst the remaining two would have had two bedrooms. East Riding Council claims this would have meant the development would not “contribute toward a satisfactory housing mix which meets the identified needs of the locality.”
By: Andrew Spence, LDRS
