23/01571/FUL
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Single storey rear extension, cladding to first floor, raised patio area with glass balustrades. Garage demolished and rebuilt in garden. New front boundary wall.
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80 Furzehatt Road Plymouth PL9 8QT
- Total Consulted: 2
- Consultees Responded: 1
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Highway Authority
Comment Date: Tue 02 Jan 2024
Plymouth City CouncilStrategic Planning & Infrastructure
Transport Planning Team
Ext: 01752 307813
Date: 2nd January 2024
Joanna Churchill
Development Management
Strategic Planning & Infrastructure
Floor 2
Ballard House
Dear Joanna
Amended Highway Authority Consultation Response to a Planning Application
APPLICATION NO: 23/01571/FUL
SITE: 80 FURZEHATT ROAD, PLYMOUTH
DEVELOPMENT: Single storey rear extension, cladding to first floor, raised patio area with glass balustrades. Garage demolished and rebuilt in garden. New front boundary wall.
Observations:
Further to my previous highway consultation response to this application, the applicant has now amended the drawings in order to avoid the parking area encroaching onto the existing area of HMPE which runs along the frontage of the property.
On the basis of this change I am now in a position to remove my previous highway recommendation of refusal and change it to one of no objections and would recommend that Standing Advice is applied relating to the proposed works to the garage.
Recommendation:
The Highway Authority recommends that Standing Advice is applied.
Scott Smy
Transport Development Coordinator
Officer authorised to sign on behalf of the Service
Director for Strategic Planning & Infrastructure
Highway Authority
Comment Date: Thu 14 Dec 2023
Plymouth City CouncilStrategic Planning & Infrastructure
Transport Planning Team
Ext: 01752 307813
Date: 14th December 2023
Joanna Churchill
Development Management
Strategic Planning & Infrastructure
Floor 2
Ballard House
Dear Joanna
Highway Authority Consultation Response to a Planning Application
APPLICATION NO: 23/01571/FUL
SITE: 80 FURZEHATT ROAD, PLYMOUTH
DEVELOPMENT: Single storey rear extension, cladding to first floor, raised patio area with glass balustrades. Garage demolished and rebuilt in garden. Front parking area extended.
Observations:
The primary concern of the LHA in respect of this application relates to the creation of the extended parking area at the front of the property which is encroaching onto land which is Highway Maintainable at Public Expense (HMPE).
The existing adopted verge along the frontage of this (and neighbouring properties) adjacent to Furzehatt Road provides a corridor within which statutory undertakers can provide their services. It also provides visibility (looking to the north) for vehicles emerging from the junction of Dolphin Court Road onto Furzehatt Road as well as inter-visibility for vehicles emerging from the driveways of neighbouring properties onto the public highway. It is for these reasons why the LHA would not want to see any development encroaching onto this area.
Were the applicant to revise their plans and remove reference to the extended front car parking area, then I can confirm that the LHA would not wish to raise any objections to this application as the garage and existing driveway along the side of the property provides a sufficient level of off-road car parking provision without the need for the extension at the front.
However, in it's current form with the creation of a private car parking area over the adopted highway and the impacts this would have upon visibility, I would have to recommend this application for refusal for the reason stated below:
Recommendation:
The Highway Authority recommends that planning permission should be refused for the following reason:-
Impact upon Existing Visibility
The creation of the extended area of car parking at the front of the property will impact upon an existing area of HMPE which performs an important function in terms of providing visibility for vehicles emerging from both private points of access onto Furzehatt Road as well as vehicles emerging from the junction of Furzehatt Road with Dolphin Court Road. The lack of such visibility splays would lead to potential conflicts occurring between vehicles emerging from these access points/junctions and those travelling along the adjoining public highway giving rise to conditions likely to cause:
(a) Prejudice to public safety;
(b) Interference with the free flow of traffic on the highway;
(c) Unwarranted hazard to vehicular traffic
which is contrary to Policy DEV29 of the Plymouth and South West Devon JLP (March 2019) and Paragraph 108 of the NPPF Feb 2019.
Scott Smy
Transport Development Coordinator
Officer authorised to sign on behalf of the Service
Director for Strategic Planning & Infrastructure