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News and Comment March 2024

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3 March (Part 1) - Subservience is what you need

Woolwich Road bunker238 Woolwich Road is the address that acquired a ‘nuclear’ bunker in its back garden the unsightliness of which drove the neighbours out of their house and there was only one willing buyer.

The bunker was built without permission but despite a sham show of resistance it was eventually OK’d by a Council which forgot that its own survey showed that the edifice had encroached on Lesnes Abbey Woods.

Last December there was a further planning application. It was for a two storey side extension on a bungalow. Planning regulations are that two storey extensions must be “subordinate” to the main dwelling. Difficult when that is a bungalow. It goes on to say that the new roof line should respect the original “thereby lowering the ridge line”. That test is failed. The ridge line is going to be the same.

Its saving grace - if not Bexley Council itself - is that the steeply inclined ground gives the illusion of “subservience”. The extension was therefore deemed to be “acceptable”.

23/02870/FUL if you can be bothered.

 

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