Newland Park planning application rejected

John Fareham and John Abbott report that the planning application to increase the number of occupants at 30 Newland Park has been rejected by the planning officers.

This decision is not conclusive – the applicants do, after all, have the right to appeal – but by following due process the officers have decided that the application should be rejected and it will therefore not be called to committee; we would have been ready otherwise to take it to Committee but we decided not to do so.  We thank local residents and the Newland Park Residents’ Association for the part they have taken in this process; as we said to the many residents who came to see us about this on our pioneering and trail-blazing mobile forum, we have made representations to the officers about this which we believe also had a considerable bearing on the outcome.