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Three in a Row

by admin on May 21st, 2012

Changing scene for Pump Hill-Queens Road junction

May 2014

A desirable location to live, The Hills area is always busy with builders and developers improving, extending, and occasionally, where space is available, building new homes.

The upper part of Pump Hill and the top of Queens Road could be facing disruption with a combination of new or unexpired planning consents for three neighbouring sites.

Permission was granted in the middle of January this year for a four bedroom home on the vacant plot of land at the top of Pump Hill (a site known as numbers 12-18) where a black weatherboarded property had once stood until demolished in the 1930s.

(HAS were grateful to the applicant for the opportunity to comment on his proposal before it was submitted to planners and also grateful that our suggestions concerning appearance, materials and scale were taken on board.)

Next door at number 10 Pump Hill permission was given in October 2013 for a two-storey rear extension.

And literally just around the corner at 78 Queens Road planning permission for a two storey side and front extension plus single storey rear extension was granted in 2003. This has been part implemented and the remaining works could be undertaken at any time – perhaps imminently as new approvals for amendments to the roof design (the inclusion of three rear dormers and front and side roof light windows plus the raising of the front gable) were granted in January and April of this year.

With the Queens Road development able to be completed at any time plus a standard three year time limit for the commencement of works that comes with the planning consents for the two schemes in Pump Hill, there is a risk that all the works with their related deliveries will overlap – a hat trick maybe, but perhaps not a cause for celebration in our narrow roads.

 

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