Sector:
Residential
Location:
Romford, Essex
Local Authority:
London Borough of Havering
Following a previous refusal on this site in Romford, Warner Planning submitted a new application to the London Borough of Havering addressing the previous reasons for refusal and positively engaged with the Council throughout the application process, ensuring all the submitted plans and documents were acceptable and policy compliant.
An Arboricultural Impact Assessment was submitted which demonstrated that the mature trees on the site would be retained and any trees that would be lost as a result of the development are lower values trees and this was deemed acceptable, providing replacement trees can be provided on a 1 for 1 basis.
Both the internal layout and external appearance of the proposed dwellings were redesigned to further address the previous reasons for refusal. This increased the size of the bedrooms to meet the local policy space standards and proposed a scale and form of dwellings that were not considered by officers to be detrimental to the street scene.
The final reason for the previous refusal was addressed by working closely with the architect who provided visibility splays from the proposed dropped kerb demonstrating that the scheme would not be harmful to highways or pedestrian safety.
The proposed development was considered to be acceptable by the planning officer and was granted planning permission subject to conditions.
Image Credit: Illustrate Architects