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26/00949/OUT Outline application for a three storey residential development for up to 8 units (All matters reserved except Access, Layout and Scale).

This application is another infill development of a three storey block of flats in what is currently part of the external amenity space for the residents of Danehurst Court. The Society believes the proposal would create harm to the amenity of the existing locale.

Accordingly, the Society commented on the EEBC Planning website as below:-

“I am writing on behalf of the Epsom Civic Society.

The outline proposal represents an unneighbourly and over-intensive form of development which would fail to safeguard the amenities of neighbouring occupiers, in particular those of neighbouring dwellings in Ashdown Road.

The bulk and massing of the proposed three-storey building, coupled with the indicative elevations, has the potential to be visually intrusive, give rise to overlooking, loss of privacy and loss of outlook to the detriment of the amenities of neighbouring occupiers in particular those of neighbouring dwellings in Ashdown Road.

The proposals would fail to meet the objectives of policy DM10 and would be contrary to DM10 (iii) and (ix) of the Development Management Policies Document 2015.”