Plans for apartments on the site of a former care home in Carlton and a proposal to create a new care home in Woodthorpe are expected to get the green light at Gedling Borough Council’s planning committee meeting tomorrow (December 1).
20 new residential apartments could be built on the site of Highclere Lodge on Burton Road if the thumbs up is given.
The site was previously in use as a 28-bedroom care home, accommodated in a detached building of a traditional design with modern additions. This building was demolished circa 2017.
Council planning officers were originally against the application as some of the trees on the site are protected by a Tree Preservation Order and there is a “potential” for archaeological remains to be present.
Changes to the plans have been made to address the issues raised.
Seventeen residents have sent letters to the council about the development.
The planning officer’s recommendation was that plans should be approved as “the proposal will not have an unacceptable impact on the residential amenity of occupiers of neighbouring properties in terms of overlooking or massing / overshadowing.
They added: “Parking and access at the site is acceptable. The proposal will not increase flood risk in the area nor will it have an unacceptable impact on ecology in the area.”
Plans are also being discussed for a new care home for 40 residents in Woodthorpe.
The new home would be built on Woodthorpe Drive.
The planning officer has recommended the scheme gets the green light.
They wrote: “The development is visually acceptable, results in no undue impact on the neighbouring properties or the area in general.
“There are no highway safety or parking issues arising as part of the proposal. Taking the above into account, it is considered that the proposal is appropriate.”
Two failed appeals over planning decisions will also be discussed.
Plans to demolish garages and erect a triple garage in Arnold were rejected on the grounds that “The design, location and scale of the proposed garage would result in an unduly prominent addition to the street scene which would visually prominent from both Mansfield Road and Birch Lea.
“The proposal would also be overbearing upon the host dwelling, competing in scale with the host dwelling and neighbouring properties and therefore would not respect the character or appearance of the local area.”
A planning inspector also ruled against plans to build a large five-bedroom family home within the grounds of Newstead Abbey.
The inspector had objected to the development arguing it would affect green belt land.
The proposal was to demolish a single-storey, stone-clad, two-bedroom home with a number of outbuildings and create a five-bedroom family home.
Planning permission was refused by the council on April 9, which felt the proposal would result in the construction of a home in the green belt which would have ‘a significantly greater floor area than the original dwelling’.
An appeal against this decision was lodged with the planning inspectorate, but has now been dismissed.
A report to the council’s next planning committee meeting includes the inspector’s conclusion, stating the frontage of the new house would ‘encroach’ into an area currently undeveloped.
