22 May 2017. HRA Objection to No 5 Crofton Close, SO17 1XB: Planning Application (part retrospective) to convert garages into Family Room/Bedroom. 17/00709/FUL.

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Jun 4, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments 2017 05 22 HRA objection 5 Crofton Close May 17(1) Planning – Ministerial reply to Caroline Nokes Apr. 17(1) 17/00709/FUL – 5 CROFTON CLOSE Letter to Southampton City Council Planning Dept – 22 May 2017 You will be aware under the terms of the amended Localism Act 2011 that… “where there is an outstanding Enforcement a Council may decline to determine a retrospective Planning...
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City council adopts new policy on HMO applications

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 31, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments The City Council’s Cabinet has now adopted a revised Supplementary Policy Document on Houses in Multiple Occupation. Changes from the previous version are: The 10% threshold within 40 m or 10+ properties, which previously applied only to the three northern wards, will now apply city-wide as guidance for refusal of an application for conversion to an HMO. (The 20% threshold which previously...
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Appeal Decision for 53 Chamberlain Road – 19th January 2016

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 21, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments I attach an Appeal Decision just forwarded by Mathew (Cllr Claisse) which is interesting in a number of ways: and I commend you all to read it.  My own observations are as follows… ·         This was a Permitted Development application which as you will know, needs to be challenged by a neighbour if it is not to go through automatically, hence this Appeal. ·         The primary reasons for...
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New Permitted Development Order – now published, April 2015

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 21, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments Eric Pickles has now published a new Town & Country Planning Act covering all permitted development with the conditions pertaining to each development whether extra building or a change of sue.  It’s all there in a long document, and should be useful for reference whenever a problem of permitted development arises. The hyperlink is here:...
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New Permitted Development Order – come into effect April 2015

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 21, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments A new General Permitted Development Order (GPDO) comes into effect next week, 15 April 2015.  The UCO (Use Classes Order, 1987) provides classes of land usage, and normally, change of use between these classes is not permitted.  But the GPDO provides exceptions. The original GPDO came into effect in 1995.  The new GPDO, Statutory Instrument 2015 No 596, replaces this on 15 April 2015.  In some...
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Highfield House Hotel – March 2015

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 21, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments The Highfield Residents Association and many local residents have welcomed the news that plans to convert the Highfield House Hotel into student accommodation have been withdrawn. The hotel will now be refurbished.
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B&Q, Portswood Road – March 2015

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on May 21, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments Following the landowners’ refusal to renew B&Q’s Portswood Road lease, the landowners have now submitted a planning application to the Council for 528 student units. Report of HMO Scrutiny Panel
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