Planning Permission to develop 133 Portswood Road, the old Blockbusters site

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Dec 12, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate | 0 comments Planning Permission was refused at Panel on 6 December 2017.  The main reason for refusal is set out below. There are also technical issues to do with various agreements not yet finalised. Overdevelopment, scale, bulk and massing. The proposed development due to its excessive density, height, bulk and resultant massing in comparison with neighbouring buildings, and overall site coverage results...
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Appeal Decision: No 5 Crofton Close, Southampton SO17 1XB. 14 November 2017

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Nov 15, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate | 0 comments HAS DECISION – 3182137
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Update on Blockbusters site, Portswood by HRA Planning Rep, Jill Baston – October 13th 2017

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Oct 26, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments UPDATE ON BLOCKBUSTER SITE Click below for more details: UPDATE ON BLOCKBUSTER SITE The planning department has received a request for retrospective permission for the use of the site for car sales; however the Highways Planning Manager has put in a recommendation for refusal based on the unsuitability of the site for the amount of manoeuvring required at a busy junction. The application has not...
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Referral to Appeal under S78 against refusal of a Householder Application:, No 5 Crofton Close, Highfield (4th Appeal!)

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Oct 11, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate, Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments Development Management Southampton City Council Ground Floor Civic Centre Southampton SO14 7LS   Please ask for      Anna Lee Our ref:                 17/00024/APFUL                                                                  2nd October 2017   Dear Sir/Madam,   TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – APPEAL UNDER S78 AGAINST REFUSAL OF A HOUSEHOLDER APPLICATION  ...
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Planning Objection, February 2017, 17/00139/FUL: 14 Crofton Close,

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Sep 5, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate | 0 comments Planning objection 14 Crofton Close Feb 17(1)
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New restaurant in Portswood Broadway

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 7, 2017 in Other Planning Issues / Information | 0 comments   New restaurant in Portswood Broadway   Baffi Neapolitan Pizzas is now open in the former Lloyds Bank building, having apparently given up plans to build 2 upper floors consisting of flats. It will mostly offer their pizzas, cooked on site in a wood-fired oven. Takeaways can be arranged but the premises are primarily a restaurant. The same company already has several branches in the...
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Planning Application 17/00983/FUL, 133 Portswood Road, Southampton

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 7, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate | 0 comments 3 August 2017 Anna Lee Planning Southampton City Council   Dear Anna   Application 17/00983/FUL 133 Portswood Road   I am writing on behalf of Highfield Residents’ Association to object to the above planning application.   The height and massing of the proposal are overbearing in the context of the surrounding area. It is out of scale in relationship to Addis Square, and the...
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Non material amendment sought to planning permission 15/01644/FUL, 18 Grosvenor Road, Southampton SO17 1RT

Posted by Highfield Residents' Association on Aug 7, 2017 in HRA Responses to Planning Applications and Appeals Inspectorate | 0 comments 11 July 2017 Anna Coombes Planning Officer Southampton City Council   Dear Anna   17/01112/NMA | Non material amendment sought to planning permission 15/01644/FUL for alterations to parapet and additional window openings for replacement garage. | 18 Grosvenor Road Southampton SO17 1RT   I’m writing on behalf of Highfield Residents’ Association to request that the non material...
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