Planning Application No. 24/02165/HSE

Demolition of two outbuildings, erection of front extension to detached garage, erection of an attached single storey extension to the side of the garage and erection of boundary wall fronting Hartley Old Road

3 August 2024

The Hartley and District Residents’ Association (HADRA) advises you that a planning application has been submitted to Croydon Council, proposing to build a 24 metre long single storey building accommodating a garage, office, fitness room and swimming pool along the plot boundary with Hartley Old Road.

Details of this planning application and can be seen on Croydon Council’s Public Access Register https://publicaccess3.croydon.gov.uk/online-applications/ where you can view the documents submitted. You can make online objections or comments on this application by clicking on “make a public comment.” Alternatively you can send written objections to:-

Head of Development Management, Croydon Council,6th Floor, Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon.CR0 1EA, or by email to dmcomments@croydon.gov.uk.

This should be done before the neighbour consultation expiry date of 9th August 2024; however the case officer will consider comments before the determination deadline which is currently 4th September 2024.

HADRA will support our residents in objecting to this latest planning application and will refer it to the Planning Committee where we can voice our objections before a decision is made. HADRA will also request our Local Councillor Samir Dwesar to also refer it to the Planning Committee.

HADRA will be making the following representations. You may use these points as the basis for your own comments, but we suggest that you adapt them to your particular circumstances or put them into your own words.

  1. The removal of a 1.8m high boundary fence along Hartley Old Road to be replaced with effectively a 3.3m high wall, 24m long, made of yellow multistock brick, would overly dominant and totally out of character with the existing street scene of green front gardens with buildings set well back from the road.
  2. No pictures of the street scene have been provided with the planning application to show the existing vegetation in front of the existing boundary fence which will be removed by this development.
  3. The roots of roadside tree T4 are likely to be damaged by the proposed building foundations.
  4. The new building will result in a significant loss of light to 69 Hartley Old Road.

Note

The following are valid planning reasons for objecting to planning applications:

  • Conflict with planning policies • Loss of light or overshadowing
  • Overlooking or loss of privacy • Loss of trees
  • Layout and density of buildings • Noise, smells and disturbance from use
  • Traffic generation, highway safety or adequacy of parking
  • Visual appearance (e.g. design, appearance, materials)
  • Effect on listed buildings or conservation areas