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Homeside Farmhouse, Bossingham, Erection of a Dwelling and Separate P03017 – Homeside Application for planning permission Homeside Farmhouse, Bossingham, Erection of a dwelling and separate garage. December 2020 Lee Evans Partnership Ref: P03017 1 P03017 – Homeside Determining Authority Canterbury City Council Prepared by Elouise Mitchell, Lee Evans Partnership LLP Date December 2020 Status FINAL Lee Evans Partnership St John’s Lane, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2QQ tel: 01227 784444 fax: 01227 819102 email: townplanning@lee‐evans.co.uk web: www.lee‐evans‐planning.co.uk 2 P03017 – Homeside 1. Introduction 1.1 This Planning, Design and Access Statement has been prepared to support an application to replace an expired planning permission CA/17/02100 for the erection of a dwelling and separate garage on land to the rear of Homeside Farmhouse, Bossingham. This application is made as the approved planning permission expired on 21 November 2020. 1.2 The application is for a scheme that is identical to that approved on 21 November 2017 and this document follows the format and principal contents of the earlier approved scheme albeit updated to take into account local and national policy changes. 1.3 Section 2 of the Statement provides a description of the site and its context, and details the proposals. In this particular case the description of the site remains the same but the description of the proposal has been revised to take account of the changes which are proposed in response to issues raised by local residents to the two applications made prior to CA/17/02100 and comments of the local planning authority. 1.4 Section 3 outlines those relevant development plan policies and describes how the proposal complies with the policy requirements. 1.5 Section 4 provides a conservation area appraisal 1.6 Section 5 examines the impact of the revised proposal on the property and its surroundings. 1.7 Section 6 submits that planning permission be granted. 3 P03017 – Homeside 2.3 The site itself forms part of the rear garden area of Homeside 2. THE APPLICATION SITE Farmhouse which is sub divided into three distinct parts. The first forms the immediate private garden space and comprises a hard Site Context landscaped patio area, brick shed and lawn serving Homeside 2.1 The application site is situated within Bossingham and is located at the Farmhouse. southern end of the village, set back from the frontage of Bossingham Street. It is part of the garden area of Homeside Farmhouse and is 2.4 The second is the application site, which wraps around the rear of linked to the road by a partly fenced off access strip, which runs down Homeside Farmhouse and Glenham and the third is the partly fenced the side boundary of Homeside Farmhouse and Glenham, the off access referred to above. detached house to the south west. Bossingham itself is a small village situated within the wider countryside approximately 9.1km to the south of Canterbury. 2.2 The village is predominantly linear with the settlement fronting The Street, Bossingham Street and Manns Hill. In the vicinity of the application site development extends in some depth to the west with the 1980’s development of the former farmyard to form 11 houses (8 terraced and 3 detached). Photo 2: The northern part of the application site showing how the semi mature planting screens the garden from overlooking with only the roofs of the adjacent Homeside Farm development visible above the canopy Photo 1: Part of the private garden area serving the back of the Farmhouse. 4 P03017 – Homeside 2.5 The application site area is located in the more discreet, isolated part of the garden which has been extensively landscaped along its boundaries with a mixture of semi‐mature trees and shrubs. This planting affords privacy to this area of the property from the adjacent development. 2.6 The village is situated in a gently undulating part of the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with the site surrounded on two sides (to the east and west) by residential gardens. 2.7 The northern boundary abuts an area of amenity space lying within the Homeside Farm residential development. To the south is agricultural land with the southern boundary of the site also forming the southern limit of the village. 2.8 The character of development in the area is mixed. Homeside Farmhouse itself is an understated 20th century building of a traditional vernacular design set under a part gabled and part hipped roof. Photo 3: Homeside Farmhouse is a traditional 20th century building. The vehicular access to the rear is shown to the left of the garage 2.9 A substantial extension on its southern side provides garage 2.11 The village benefits from a number of local facilities with the village accommodation and further bedroom accommodation within the roof hall located opposite Homeside Farmhouse, the local primary school space. A single‐storey rear extension has also been added to extend (Stelling Minnis Primary School) 0.2km to the south and the village pub the ground floor living accommodation. 0.34km to the north. Other facilities are located in Canterbury to the north, which is the main town serving the area. 2.10 Glenham, the detached house to the south, is an undistinguished mid‐ 1920s house. Remaining development in the vicinity is more modern The Application and a fuller description is included within the section 4 which offers a 2.12 The application involves the erection of a new detached dwelling on conservation area appraisal. part of the garden of the existing farmhouse together with the laying out of a driveway/access to Bossingham Street, which also involves an alteration to the garage serving the farmhouse to ease the line of the 5 P03017 – Homeside new driveway and provide adequate visibility to the road. A more is located within a 4.2m wide strip running parallel with the boundary detailed description of the development is set out below. However it to Glenham. should be noted here that the scheme is a copy of the approved development (CA//17/02100) with no changes to the site area, design 2.17 A separate garage building is located close to the western boundary of or location of the house or garage. the site and to the north of the proposed dwelling as shown on the site location plan (drawing number 07285‐428). This is located some 10.5m Use away from the boundary with the Homeside Close development. 2.13 The application provides for a single detached private residential dwelling on a part of the garden area of Homeside Farmhouse. The 2.18 The existing boundary planting is to be retained along with a 1.7m existing dwelling will remain largely unaltered and will sit within a plot close boarded fence which separates the plot from the other gardens. measuring 61m x 17m (1137m2). The new dwelling will be set within a The main car parking and turning area is to be located on the northern plot measuring some 28m x 21m (574m2) (excluding the driveway). side of the dwelling with entrance into the house located on the eastern elevation. The remaining part of the plot will be retained as Amount private garden space serving Homeside Farmhouse. 2.14 This proposal involves the erection of a two storey dwelling totalling some 153m² floor area spread over two floors. A separate garage 2.19 The accommodation is set on a north/south axis with the main living measuring 7.1m x 6.3m is located to the north of the proposed dwelling accommodation at ground floor level and bedroom accommodation at and is to provide secure garaging for the Homeside Farmhouse. first floor level. Window openings to the principal rooms are generally situated on the east, south and west elevations. The number of 2.15 The overall site area of the new house is approximately 0.04ha windows on the west elevation is limited and confined largely to the excluding the area of the access drive and the proposal involves ground floor with the exception of one obscure glazed window lighting increasing the density on the overall site from approximately 5 a bathroom and a lower level window lighting the staircase. The dwellings per hectare to 10 dwellings per hectare. kitchen and bedroom 4 are lit from the north elevation. Layout Scale 2.16 The dwelling is positioned centrally within the plot on an east west axis 2.20 The proposed footprint of the new dwelling, set at 79m² is modest. It and at the northern end of the site with its western elevation set equates to the size of other detached dwellings in the area. At ground approximately 5m from the boundary with The Herdsman (the house floor level the basic floor plan measures some 12.9m x 6.8m with a to the west). It is approximately 20.6m away from the northern 3.8m outshot providing garage accommodation housed under a boundary, moving the dwelling an extra 4.6m away from Homeside pitched roof. The height of the building is 4.3m to the eaves and 7.95m Close from that shown on the previous application. The eastern to the ridge. The single storey section is 2.3m to eaves and 5.7m to the elevation is set 9m away from the boundary with Glenham. Its access ridge. 6 P03017 – Homeside 2.21 The separate garage block serving Homeside Farmhouse measures 7m x 6m and is 2.3m to eaves and 5.6m to ridge. 2.27 The fenestration will be a traditional casement design and constructed of anodised colour coated aluminium external frames mounted on an Appearance internal timber face.
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