From: Julie Shea Sent: 21 October 2009 16:31 To: DC Secretaries Subject: FW: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments (09/01275/F) -----Original Message----- From: publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk [mailto:publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk] Sent: 20 October 2009 17:29 To: Public Access DC Comments Subject: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments (09/01275/F) PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments (09/01275/F) "John & Alison Smith" has used the PublicAccess for Planning website to submit their comments on a Planning Application. You have received this message because you are the Case Officer for this application or because this is a designated mailbox for PublicAccess comments submissions. Comments were submitted at 20/10/2009 17:29:23 Application Summary ------------------- Application Number: 09/01275/F Address: Bishops End Burdrop Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5RQ Proposal: Alterations and extension to barn to provide 4no. en-suite letting rooms. Case Officer: Shona King Customer Details ---------------- Name: John & Alison Smith Address: Carriers Cottage Street Through Burdrop Burdrop Oxfordshire Postcode: OX15 5RQ Comments -------- Submission Type: Customer objects to the Planning Application. Comments: Dear Sirs I write in connection with: Application Number: 09/01275/F Address: Bishops End Burdrop Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5RQ Proposal: Alterations and extension to barn to provide 4 en-suite letting rooms. Case Officer: Shona King As a neighbour living two doors from the above property I wish to record my objections to the proposed development. 1. It is hard to interpret the proposal as anything other than a ploy to erect a house on the site site of pub and whilst I have no objection to the change of use from a pub to a private dwelling properly and legally achieved, I believe that any such private dwelling should have some architectural merit, be in-keeping with the charcter of the village ( which has several grade two listed properties, including the pub) and be designed so as to minimise the impact on neighbours of any extension to the existing building. The proposed structure does not meet this criteria. 2. The structure would be located at the front of the site in an elevated position (The roofline appears to be 3 metres higher than the pub roof )where it would have the maximum visual impact on neighbours. Any structure on this site - commercial or private - should be further from the road and discretely sited in the landscape. 3. The proposal does not look as if it will be realistic as 4 en-suite letting rooms operated by the pub. The rooms appear to all connect with each other. In the case of the fourth room, located in the roof, it can only be accessed either through Bedroom 3 or Bedroom 1. This is an acceptable arrangement in a house but not for independent rooms for letting. It is also hard to understand how the rooms could function for paying guests with no self catrering facilities : the pub is currently derelict and cannot supply guests with catering services or indeed any other facilities. 4 The proposed building would create a need for more car parking spaces and it is hard to see where these could be found on the current site. When the pub was open our quiet, narrow lane was often crowded with cars that could not fit into the pub car park and this situation would be made worse. 5. The drawings do not show any consideration given to the screening of heating fuel tanks or waste bins, and they appear to ignore the pole for the power cables currently situated where the proposed building would stand. I believe the building in its currently proposed form and in the proposed position on the site is an infilling encroachment that would be detrimental to a designated Conservation area. yours sincerely John and Alison Smith Carriers Cottage Burdrop Sibford Gower Oxon OX15 5RQ telephone 01295 788004 PublicAccess for Planning. (c) CAPS Solutions Ltd.