Bath & North East Somerset Council’s planning committee has rejected retrospective planning permission for 43 Upper Oldfield Park, following a meeting yesterday afternoon.
The committee rejected planning permission for the five storey building which has already been built by developers.
It opens the prospect that the block of 14 luxury flats in Upper Oldfield Park could have to be demolished.
Though Landmark Development had planning permission for a building on the site, the constructed block of flats did not follow the plans and the developers were requested to apply for retrospective permission.
Last summer a group of local residents, who favour sympathetic development of the site, convinced the Council to impose a 28 day temporary stop notice on construction.
At the end of that period work resumed and would have been completed in a few weeks.
The developers must now appeal against the decision by the committee if they intend to keep the building as it currently stands.
The original plan of the building has been so compromised by changes to the structure that they maintain it is impossible to revert to the plans they have permission for.
After a long discussion in which no councillors spoke up for the building, the committee, with one abstention, voted to turn down the application.
Protestors had argued that if the council allowed developers to dictate the rules there would be no democracy in the system, a point made forcefully by members of the committee during the discussion.
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Christopher John Edward Brann
Friday 10th April, 2015 at 09:27This has to be enforced or all developers will be doing the same.
The planning system has to be upheld.