COUNCILLORS are to visit the site of a planning application for a new driveway at a house in Culcheth – even though they have been told the householder doesn’t even need planning consent.
Members of the borough council’s planning committee will visit the house in Clarke Avenue before deciding if the owner can construct a new entrance drive from Culcheth Hall Drive.
Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council has objected to the proposal on the grounds it will have an impact on the street scene and trees and because there appears to be no need for an additional access to the house.
But officers are recommending the application be approved – and point out that the householder could construct the driveway under permitted development rights.
They say it would be unreasonable to refuse permission for something that can be built without permission – even if permission was refused.
Eight neighbours have objected and point out there is already an adequate access onto Clarke Avenue.
They say the extra drive will lead to increased traffic movements, pedestrian safety issues and the loss of mature trees.
COUNCILLORS are to visit the site of a planning application for a new
driveway at a house in Culcheth - even though they have been told the
householder doesn't even need planning consent.
A plan that doesn't need permission!
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The officers clearly know that is wrong. Permitted development does not allow for the construction of a new vehicular access to a registered road. Culcheth Hall Drive clearly is a registered road. The property in question does have a pedestrian access onto Culcheth Hall Drive, however there is not currently a vehicular access, nor is there a dropped kerb from Culcheth Hall Drive. The officers are correct in that the owner of the property can upgraded the existing pedestrian drive that exists from Culcheth Hall Drive under permitted development rights. However it cannot be made into a vehicular access without planning permission to do so. I suspect the new owner is a developer as property which is a bungalow is located on a sizeable plot of land
Would you believe our Planners if they said Black! was white! After recent debacle re planning in Culcheth and “lost” records wouldn’t you, as a Councillor, be cautious?
The lunatica are running the asylum!
Pity the Councillors and the Parish Council failed to voice their concerns earlier on the “recent debacle re planning in Culcheth and “lost” records”, critical Ombudsman’s and etc.
Let’s hope for their sakes that the residents who have complained about this “plan that doesn’t need permission” do not get the frighteners put on them like the other poor souls who objected, to what turned out to be an unauthorized developement not very far away from this one.