Plans for new house in back garden finally approved after seven year delay
A back garden planning application that has been withdrawn once and refused twice since it was first unveiled in 2018 has finally got the green light.
Fareham Borough Council have approved plans from developer DBS Ltd to build a three-bedroom house on land to the rear of 64 Stubbington Lane in Hill Head. The planning committee meeting on January 14 heard the application was previously turned down due to its lack of nitrate mitigation for the site, which has now been resolved.
Council officer Katherine Burbury said that the developer had not previously proposed to pay for the increase in nitrates that building and using the house would produce. Nitrate mitigation is part of what a developer pays for any housing development to protect the environment and local habitats.
Councillor David Foot (Con, Sarisbury and Whiteley) said: “So the developer has paid some money, and they can go.”
The original application in 2018 was for a detached three-bedroomed chalet-bungalow, which was withdrawn in 2019 from the planning process.
The applications in May and September 2022 were refused “because of adverse effects on the integrity of protected habitat sites due to the generation of nutrients entering the water environment and the lack of appropriate mitigation”.
But in approving this application, council planners said: “The developer must buy nitrate mitigation ‘credits’ from a council-approved nitrate mitigation scheme with a preexisting agreement already in place.”
The proposed plans are for a two-storey terraced style house; a kitchen, utility room, WC and living area on the ground floor with three bedrooms, an en-suite and a bathroom on the second floor.
The current on-street parking on Cremyll Close will be lost to give access to the house. There will be two on-site parking and two cycle parking spaces.
The councillors unanimously approved the application.