Cllr. Mary Mears

BH2022/00287 - Land Adjacent Hillside, Ovingdean Road

1st March 2022:

For the approval of layout scale, appearance and land scaping relating to the erection of 1no dwelling (C3) Land Adjacent Hillside Ovingdean Road Brighton Bn2 7AA.

As a ward councillor for Rottingdean Coast I wish to abject to the above application for the following reasons:

In my view this is a completely inappropriate development, to put a 6-bedroom 3 storey house on this tiny plot, The site is situated on the steep part of Ovingdean road on a blind bend on the left as you go down.

There are a large number of healthy trees on the site all with TPOs on them, which would need to be felled to accommodate this development, and is close to a wild- life corridor.

An application to build on this site was previously turned down some years ago because of the traffic dangers, this being a blind bend, which is still the case. Access to this site on a bend will in my view cause serious problems for traffic in the area.

This application is also much larger than the planning permission originally given in 2019 for a 2 storey development.

Should this application be granted under delegated powers, I wish the application to go to the planning committee and reserve my right to speak.