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Dear Andrew Huntley,
Application No. BH2014/03343
Address: 28B Crescent Road, Brighton BN2 3RP
Description: Prior Approval for Change of Use from Offices (B1) to Residential (C3) to form 5no Self contained flats.
We were in full agreement with the Council’s decisions to refuse the applicant’s last application (BH2014/00841 28 & 28B Crescent Road) for prior approval for change of use from offices (B1) to residential (C3) to form 5no self contained flats.
This was followed by a request for a Certificate of Lawfulness (BH2014/01815 28 A, B & C Crescent Road) which was withdrawn before the decision date.
The current application BH2014/03343 (28B Crescent Road) seeks the go-ahead for essentially the same scheme first submitted to The Council in a full planning application BH2014/00124. This earlier application (received 15/01/2014) cited the office buildings at both 28 & 28B Crescent Road as previously being in A2 class use. There was time for CAG to advise refusal of the scheme (overdevelopment & unsympathetic architecturally to surrounding properties in the Round Hill CA) before this earlier application was also withdrawn. Applications lodged earlier this year, make it clear that with 5no self contained flats as the applicant’s goal, as much as 313 sq metres of floorspace would need to qualify for conversion under the terms of the permitted development rule.
We urge you to refuse Application BH2014/03343, because:
We are pleased that Brighton and Hove City Council has so far refused applications to progress a clearly unsuitable scheme by applying the grant of permitted development to circumstances where it just does not fit.
We urge you to refuse BH2014/03343. This would be consistent with your earlier decisions which indicate to a determined developer that a full planning application would be needed if his goal is to be considered. Only the latter would give immediate residents fair opportunity to have reasonable concerns counted as valid in The Council’s determination of future planning decisions.
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