The Echo previews one of the items for this Thursday’s Development Committee :
ENTREPRENEURS behind plans to create a rollerskating rink in Rochford say they are ?quietly confident? the bid will be approved.
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Clive Meech, 42, and his business partner Lee Hulls, 38, want to bring back the spirit of the Eighties by creating the rink, called Rollacity, in a disused building on Purdeys industrial estate, Rochford.
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The proposal, similar to the old Roller City in Aviation Way, Southend, will go before Rochford District Council?s development control committee next week and planning officers have already given the scheme the thumbs-up.
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Mr Meech said: ?We are quietly confident. We won?t get too excited until we get a final decision, but so far the response from the experts has been positive.
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?However, we were in this position last time and it was rejected, so we don?t want to get ahead of ourselves.
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There are two other applications :
The first is to ‘Construct Covered Smoking Shelter to Essex Barn’ at The Chichester, Old London Road, Rawreth. This is recommended for approval.
The second is to “Convert Former Public House Into Single Dwelling House And Form New Detached Dwelling House To Rear Of Site With Access, Parking And Garden Areas – The Chequers Inn High Street, Canewdon” – This is recommended for refusal, but not for “keeping a village pub’ reasons, but for the following design and parking reasons:
1 The proposed house would contain too many disparate architectural elements such as Tudor style windows, a shallow projecting bay with applied studwork and braces, as well as lean to roofs over a semi circular bay window, stone quoins, and a classical porch, which is cut into the lean to roofs on either side. The projecting front element has no articulation and the overall roof pitch is too low in contrast to traditional and simpler form required. If allowed, the proposed house, by way its design, proportions and overall form, would detract from the traditional characteristics of the Canewdon High Street Conservation Area, which it would adjoin and would fail to preserve or enhance the character of the Canewdon High Street Conservation Area.
2 The proposal, given the size of accommodation to each dwelling proposed, fails to provide satisfactory off-street car parking to serve the development. In this case each dwelling would provide in excess of two bedrooms and, given the remote location of the site without access to a regular bus service, the provision of the minimum of two parking spaces for each dwelling is considered inadequate. The additional parking spaces shown to the integral garages are under size and would not contribute to effective off street parking. If allowed, the development would result in increased overspill on street parking in nearby streets to the detriment of the free flow of traffic and the appearance of the street more generally.
3 The proposal, by way of the two storey form of the house proposed to the rear of the site and close siting of the dwelling at first floor level to the rear boundary, would result in an unsatisfactory relationship with the neighbouring house at No. 4 Birch Close giving rise to unreasonable and excessive loss of privacy in a poor relationship to the neighbouring dwelling contrary to part (ii) to Policy HP 14 and part (viii) to policy HP 6 to the Council?s saved Local Plan ( 2006).