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Bell Cornwell Projects
Residential Intensification – Camberley, Surrey
Client: Beckingham Homes Ltd
Architects: Beckingham Homes Ltd
Local Authority: Surrey Heath Borough Council
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Bell Cornwell LLP was instructed assist with the submission of a
planning application. The site is located within a residential urban
area and is not subject to any special character designation. Noise
and bat surveys were required and concerns were raised about the
density of development, the size of the dwellings on the plots, and
the impacts on the character of area.
Bell Cornwell submitted representations regarding the development
control and policy analysis behind the Council’s concerns. Bat and
noise reports were submitted and Bell Cornwell met with the case
officer to negotiate a slightly amended scheme to overcome the
concerns about the relationship between two of the dwellings,
further submissions were made regarding the proposed density of the
development and the character of the area.
The application was then recommended for approval but subject to
a condition requiring the submission and approval of a scheme to
mitigate noise in the gardens of the proposed dwellings to PPG24 NEC
A, even though the Council had been advised by their own consultee
that this was unlikely to be achievable.
Bell Cornwell submitted representations to the effect that the
land was already in garden use; an unachievable condition would be
ultra vires, and that there was no policy basis for the suggested
restriction. As a result Officers removed the condition from the
recommendation.
The application was unanimously approved by the planning
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