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>Title: Neighbours raise concern about bid to build new >house three inches from their home >Website: northamptonchron.co.uk >Date: 06/02/2012 >Link : <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href = >"http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/neighbour >s_raise_concern_about_bid_to_build_new_house_three_inch >es_from_their_home_1_3491576">Neighbours raise concern >about bid to build new house three inches from their >home</a> > >Neighbours raise concern about bid to build new house >three inches from their home > >PLANS to build a new house just three inches away from >a neighbouring property could be approved by >councillors this week, despite concerns raised by the >owners of the house next to the development site. > >The Jesus Army has applied to Northampton Borough >Council for permission to build a four bedroom, >communal house in Hester Street, Semilong. > >The house would be built just three inches away from a >neighbouring detached house. > >The owners of the neighbouring property have told the >council that building two houses with gable ends so >close to each other would make maintaining both >properties extremely difficult. > >But in a report which will be seen by the council’s >planning committee tomorrow, council planning expert, >Geoff Wyatt, said the tiny gap between the two >properties would not be a problem. > >He said: “Although the separation distance is >relatively minimal, it is considered that a more >substantial gap would impact on the continuity of the >street scene.” > >He also said the new house would not harm the Jesus >Army’s other property in the street, which also >neighbours the development site, as a gap of almost >10ft would be left on that side of the new property. > >Recommending councillors approve the plans, he added: >“The siting, design and appearance of the building >will compliment the existing street scene without >being detrimental to residential amenity and highway >safety.” > >Residents of Hester Street have also raised concerns >that the new house would have no parking spaces. But >Mr Wyatt said the fact it would be used in conjunction >with the Jesus Army’s current building would ‘reduce >dependency on the private car’. > >He also pointed out the site was close to shops and >the town centre, adding: “As the site is in a very >sustainable location being next to a bus route and >close to local shops and the town centre, the proposed >occupiers would not need car ownership.” > >Members of the borough council’s planning committee >will make a final decision tomorrow on whether the >development should go ahead.
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