Plans to extend a neglected house in Olton will go back in front of Solihull planners next week after the applicant listened to councillors’ frustrations. Applicant Zeus Padam originally applied for permission for a single storey rear extension and two storey side extension at the home in Stonor Park Road in May.
As the Local Democracy Reporting Service recently reported the application went before Solihull Council’s planning committee after neighbours objected calling it “overbearing” and saying it would be an “overdevelopment of the site”. At the committee’s meeting Jon Hallam, a planning officer at the authority, told councillors the proposal would in fact have a “negligible impact on neighbours”.
Ward councillor Sardul Marwa, who had called the application into the committee, said he wanted a resolution quickly as “the property is getting derelict, meadows everywhere”. But at that December meeting Councillor Dave Pinwell asked questions about the extension’s distance to the boundary.
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This led the committee’s chairman, Councillor Bob Grinsell, to say there was a lack of technical information. He said: “I know the applicant is here. We have to make a measured decision, for or against. Currently we can’t.” The item was deferred so that the information required could be supplied to the committee.
In a new report for the committee officers confirm this has now been done writing: “The applicant has since provided a street scene drawing, which is included in the plans pack together with a block plan.” Officers have again recommend the extension be approved, subject to conditions.
The application will be considered at the committee’s next meeting taking place at the Civic Suite on Wednesday, (January 8). The meeting is open to the public and starts at 6pm.
Alternatively the live stream can be watched on the authority’s website at solihull.gov.uk.