SOLENT TV Website - 13.07.05

ROBIN HOOD ST PLANS APPROVED – AGAINST LOCAL WISHES

Council planners have given a development in Newport the go-ahead – a decision that goes against the wishes of a number of local residents and the councillor representing the area.

Outline planning permission was granted for seven residential units to be built on a plot of land on Robin Hood Street currently occupied by one property, which will be demolished. The local councillor, Cllr Geoff Lumley, believes the plans represent overdevelopment of the site and loss of privacy for neighbouring properties. Six local residents wrote to the council to object on similar grounds, but members of the Development Control Committee passed the plans at their meeting last night.