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This section includes details about planning policy, issues and particular applications affecting the Round Hill area.

For older items, including information on the Hollingdean Waste Transfer facility, please see the planning archives section.

Carelet refused permission for 6 houses
On 9th June 2010, the Planning Committee refused Carelet’s application to build 6 three-storey houses on the greenfield site opposite the yard shared by the WTS and MRF. 8 members of Brighton and Hove Council's Planning Committee voted AGAINST the proposal, 2 FOR it, and 2 did not take part in the voting.
[See The Plans List for the meeting on 9th June]

Items relevant to Planning Committee's grounds for refusing App. BH2010/00083
1) Failure to meet travel demand (parking)
2) Overdevelopment: separations between existing (67, 71 & 73 Princes Rd) and proposed homes fall far short of 20M.
3) Detrimental impact of WTS on future occupants - Gardens proposed would look into the main yard of the MRF and WTS; insufficient space for adequate screening.
Other concerns of Round Hill residents:
A) Impact on longer views into Round Hill from the north & east. Failure to represent relevant "longer views" i.e. where almost the whole of the application site is visible: see below. Instead, the developer has been permitted to choose vantage points and angles where industrial buildings (e.g. The Visitors Centre and WTS) are in the way.

B) Inadequate access would involve damage to a protected tree
Apart from the bottleneck of vehicles (residents, visitors, trade, collection) trying to park as near as possible to Carelet's inadequate site access, the protected horse chestnut tree in unlikely to survive the construction phase of this proposal.
C) See also Greenfield Development and Open Spaces Policies.
Extracts from last Appeal Decision
[APP/Q1445/A/08/2073223]: Planning Inspector Roger Mather (21st October 2008) on Carelet's unsuccessful proposal for 6 x three-storey + 2 x two-storey houses.

"on the northern side as a consequence of overdevelopment there is insufficient space to mitigate the poor outlook towards the recently completed waste transfer station".

"without a guarantee that the development would be genuinely car free, it would be likely to exacerbate parking stress in the area, sufficient to warrant withdrawing planning permission. The requirements of Local Plan Policies TR19 and HO7 (b) would not be satisfied."

Don't suffer pollution in silence
Troubled by noise, odour or dust from The Waste Transfer Station? - Residents living several times further away than Carelet's application site continue to suffer pollution. On Saturday 12th June 2010, the nuisance from odour was especially strong. Do not suffer in silence or days like this could become the norm if the Environment Agency hears nothing from you. File a Waste Watch Report each time.
Recent Decisions
Brighton and Hove City Council granted permission for the Ashdown Road development on Wednesday 16th December 2009

Earlier in 2009, planning permission was also granted to convert the Victoria Pub into two town houses.

The proposal for the Hollingdean Road Residential Development which was refused in 2008.

The Supplementary Planning Document on Architectural Features has now been adopted.

More information on general planning concerns and associated issues: Garden Grabbing, Local Planning, Manual For Streets, Objection to Open Spaces Survey, Open Spaces, Open spaces criteria, Open Spaces Survey, Planning, Sustainable Building Design

Other proposals
Information on other proposals affecting Round Hill include plans for the regeneration of the Open Market, ideas put forward by developers St James's Investments for the London Road shopping centre.

In 2007, there was a proposal to build several dwellings off Round Hill Crescent. The proposal was refused but a revised plan to convert an existing building to a single dwelling was approved and construction was completed in 2008.

The Cat Creep was the focus of a 2006 plan to build new houses in one of the open spaces bordering the twitten.

This page was last updated by Ted on 14-Jun-2010