Developers are fencing us in claim protesting neighbours
COUNCILLORS will be advised to approve a development that has blocked out the light to a neighbour's home because it has been built in the wrong place.
After issuing a stop notice to developer Westcombe regarding half-built mews houses behind Highgrove House, which are 1.5 metres out of position, planning officials at Hillingdon Council gave the thumbs up to a retrospective application.
The report, which urges councillors at tomorrow's north planning committee (Thursday) to vote through a modified plan, has been criticised by Eastcote residents whose back garden vista has been ruined by it.
A petition with 53 names objecting has urged councillors to see for themselves the effect the development has had on residents in Kent Gardens.
Andrew Lakin, 45, is one of those most affected.
"I was all in favour of work to restore Highgrove House and turn it into flats, but I wasn't aware of the additional buildings they wanted to put there," he told the Gazette. "The first I knew of it was the beginning of this year, when they started erecting scaffolding.
"They cut the trees down and put these houses up right behind my property. I thought it was incredible given the proximity to our houses and the eyesore they created."
The original application to provide 12 residential units at Highgrove House and erect four two-bedroom mews houses was granted in January 2007.
But after local resident Helen Ronchetti discovered the mews homes were being built out of position, the council ordered work to cease.
In his report on the retrospective application submitted by Westcombe, planning officer Richard Phillips argued: "The revised siting and design of the mews housing would have a neutral impact, and with the planting of a laurel hedge on the boundary, possibly a reduced impact in terms of the existing planning permission as approved."
But after Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP Nick Hurd visited the site, he wrote to Mr Phillips: "The rear of this building is extremely close to Kent Gardens - it will probably mean the ground-floor maisonette will have virtually no daylight coming in."
Ms Ronchetti added: "I have never known anything be built so close to a fence before. The only happy ending to this is for it to come down."
Westcombe, based in Greenford, declined to comment.
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Developers are fencing us in claim protesting neighbours ...
COUNCILLORS will be advised to approve a development that has blocked out the light to a neighbour's home because it has been built in the wrong place.
After issuing a stop notice to developer Westcombe regarding half-built mews houses behind Highgrove House, which are 1.5 metres out of position, planning officials at Hillingdon Council gave the thumbs up to a retrospective application.
The report, which urges councillors at tomorrow's north planning committee (Thursday) to vote through a modified plan, has been criticised by Eastcote residents whose back garden vista has been ruined by it.
A petition with 53 names objecting has urged councillors to see for themselves the effect the development has had on residents in Kent Gardens.
Andrew Lakin, 45, is one of those most affected.
"I was all in favour of work to restore Highgrove House and turn it into flats, but I wasn't aware of the additional buildings they wanted to put there," he told the Gazette. "The first I knew of it was the beginning of this year, when they started erecting scaffolding.
"They cut the trees down and put these houses up right behind my property. I thought it was incredible given the proximity to our houses and the eyesore they created."
The original application to provide 12 residential units at Highgrove House and erect four two-bedroom mews houses was granted in January 2007.
But after local resident Helen Ronchetti discovered the mews homes were being built out of position, the council ordered work to cease.
In his report on the retrospective application submitted by Westcombe, planning officer Richard Phillips argued: "The revised siting and design of the mews housing would have a neutral impact, and with the planting of a laurel hedge on the boundary, possibly a reduced impact in terms of the existing planning permission as approved."
But after Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner MP Nick Hurd visited the site, he wrote to Mr Phillips: "The rear of this building is extremely close to Kent Gardens - it will probably mean the ground-floor maisonette will have virtually no daylight coming in."
Ms Ronchetti added: "I have never known anything be built so close to a fence before. The only happy ending to this is for it to come down."
Westcombe, based in Greenford, declined to comment.
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