11/00713/F - Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

SUPPORTING CASE
Proposal
This proposal and application arises from circumstances on site raised by an Officer in the
Planning Department
The only item that is the subject of this proposal which has not had previous consideration
and approval is the siting of the House and its North elevations in respect to the Northern
boundary.
In other respects the House has approval and has been completed to that approval.
The North gable in its completed position is located such that the difference between
approved and as built is small in both distance and effect.
Background
The whole site has an approval for 6 Houses to be constructed and all but 2 have been
completed. Plot 3 proposal has had amendments approved firstly for a change of design and
secondly handing of the design and this has been constructed.
The House has been completed for almost 2 years in its present form and was under
construction for 10 months before then.
The latest approval is an extant approval for a House of this form on this plot.
Siting
The Authority’s Officers originally mentioned that the House is positioned in a location not
approved and that in respect to both the North boundary and the East boundary the House
was some 500– 600mm nearer for the North and 600mm nearer than the East respectively.
Further measurements commissioned by the Applicant have shown that with regard to the
East boundary this is not the case and the location is within tolerances generally agreed as
acceptable. The differential is between - 0.1 and + 0.150 and as such is acceptable as being
correct.
The dimension to the North as measured by the Authority’s Officers for the face of the wall
range from 0950mm to 1140mm but further measurements have shown that the dimensions
in fact are 1000mm to 1140mm and these have been generally accepted as correct in
Officer discussions.
The scaled dimension as the gap between the faces of the wall and the North gable is
agreed at the Local Authority’s figure of 1500mm as the approved dimension.
It can be seen that on the face of it the North gable is some 500mm down to 360mm nearer
to the wall face than scaled from the drawing.
A distance of 1000mm is commonplace in positioning buildings adjacent to boundaries.
As approved and as built comparison
11/01704/F Development Control Board
25 July 2011
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