A planning inspector has upheld the city council’s decision to refuse planning permission for a ten bedroom purpose built student accommodation block in the back garden of a student House in Multiple Occupation in Union Road.
The application prompted 61 public objections without a single supportive response following its submission last spring.
Council planning officers subsequently refused it in December on grounds including its scale and intensity, the impact it would have on neighbours and its incompatibility with the St James Neighbourhood Plan
3D view of proposed development. Image: Ercle.
The applicant appealed the decision earlier this year, before applying to build a six-bed student accommodation block in the back garden of another nearby student House in Multiple Occupation he also owns in Pennsylvania Road.
A planning inspector subsequently dismissed the Union Road appeal, saying the development would be “uncharacteristically prominent, bulky and of a density and massing that would be incompatible with the immediate and surrounding townscape setting”.
The Pennsylvania Road application has prompted 26 public objections without a single supportive response. It will be considered by city council planning officers in due course.
