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

EAST OF ENGLAND PLAN
Policy ENV7: Quality in the Built Environment - Local Development Documents should
require new development to be of high quality which complements the distinctive character
and best qualities of the local area and promotes urban renaissance and regeneration.
PLANNING POLICIES
The King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Local Plan (1998) contains the following saved policies
that are relevant to the proposal:
4/21 - indicates that in built-up areas of towns or villages identified on the Proposals Map as
Built Environment Type C or D development will be permitted where it is in character with the
locality.
8/1 - indicates that individual and small groups of dwellings will be permitted in settled or
built-up areas of villages defined as Built Environment Types C and D.
LDF CORE STRATEGY POLICIES
CS06 - Development in Rural Areas
PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
The principle of a dwelling and its design and appearance are considered acceptable. The
main issues for consideration are:
� Planning history
� The change in the location of the dwelling and its impact on neighbour amenity
� Other Issues
Planning history
By way of history, planning permission was granted in November 2003 for 6 large houses on
the overall Dairy Farm site (now Webbs Way. The permission was subsequently
implemented and remains an extant consent with two further plots (Plots 1 and 2) capable of
being built. Whilst the 2003 permission was under consideration, amendments were made
to the siting of Plot 3 to take account of highway safety concerns. The dwelling on Plot 3
was approved with a two storey rear extension approx 2m from the boundary with the
property to the north, 3 Reeves Lane, with a window in the gable end directly overlooking the
garden (western side of 3 Reeves Lane).
Further applications followed to vary the design of houses on plots 5 and 6 but in 2008 an
application to amend the design of Plot 3 (the application site) was submitted. This
application effectively handed the two storey extension element of the proposed dwelling
located on its north face from the west side of the dwelling to the east and moved the garage
from the south part of the site adjacent to the access road to the west side of the house
creating an attached garage.
11/01704/F Development Control Board
25 July 2011
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