6 Springfield Road, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 6AE

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Proposed Development: Subdivision of house into four flats

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En-Plan were approached to act as the Planning & Architectural Consultants for a local developer to look at the suitability of a property sub-division of an existing residential property in Gorleston into four self contained units.

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En-Plan conducted an initial planning appraisal and found the site was suitable for conversion and then set about formulating a fromal plannig application to achieve this. This was subsequently submitted to Great Yarmouthj District Council who conducted their own planning assessment.

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The property involved in the application is a three storey semi-detached house on the south side of
Springfield Road, there is a pair of two storey semi-detached houses to the west and a terrace of four, two storey houses to the east. The other half of the application property (no. 5) has been converted to six flats (06/92/0410/F), the property to the west is a single dwelling. The proposal is to convert the property from a house to four self contained flats.

 

As the site is in a Town Centre location parking requirements are reduced allowing EN-PLAN to secure the permission by arguing that the proximity of public transport links ensured there would be no highways and access impacts.

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Application Ref: 06/15/0732/F6

Application Type: Full Planning
Date Valid: 16/04/2015
Location: 6 Springfiled Road, Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 6AE.
Proposal: Sub-division of property into four flats.
Decision: Full Granted
Decision Date: 01/02/2016

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The Council noted that the application will involve some minor changes to the external appearance of the building and internal alterations to change from a five bedroom house to four flats. Flat 1 will consist of a
living/kitchen room, separate bedroom and a shower room, Flat 2 will have a living/kitchen area and bathroom on the ground floor and a bedroom on the first floor, Flat 3 is on the first floor and will have a kitchen, shower room and bedroom/living room, Flat 4 occupies the remainder of the first floor and the second floor and will have two bedrooms, two shower rooms and a living room/kitchen. There is off-road parking for two cars at the front and a garden at the rear, there is space to store bins at the side and rear of the property but a specific bin storage area has not been defined on the submitted drawings but ammended digital mapping was submitted to show this.

The neighbour to the west (no. 7) has objected on the grounds of extra traffic, parking and services and that there is not enough off-street parking for all of the flats, they also say that there is an existing problem with parking on the road because of lack of garages and from customers of the Cliff Hotel. There are similar problems with parking on most of the terraced roads in the older parts of Gorleston, in this case the building will change from a large, five bedroom family house to four flats, if the building remained as a house there is the potential for the occupiers to have several cars and there is no certainty that the occupiers of the flats will all own cars. The proposal will have offroad parking for two cars and the Highways Officer has no objection to the application. It would therefore be difficult to justify refusal of the application on highway grounds.

The other half of the semi has been converted to six flats so there is not a property used as a single unit of family accommodation directly adjoining the development, the conversion will not affect the external appearance of the building or the character and amenity of the area. The majority of the houses on Springfield Road are single dwellings but there are other flats at no. 1 Springfield Road and nearby on Cliff Hill. Taking this into considereation the Council recommneded apporval for this sustainable scheme.

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APPROVE - the proposal complies with Policy HOU23 of the Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Local
Plan.

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Further Information

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