A developer who has changed a townhouse in six apartments may be invited to demolish the skylights built on the assets without permission.
Retrospective planning permission for ceiling modifications has been denied through the Salford Planning Committee this week and compliance action is expected.
Eccles’ assets already had a construction in position to be transformed into six-compartment apartments with skylights at the front and back of the house.
But in July 2019, the council reported that there were additional paintings on the site.
Two expanses of skylight were built at the front and a giant skylight at the back of the assets as a “two-water hip” roof extension.
A neighbor living in adjacent adjacent adjacent adjacent space told the panel in a virtual assembly Thursday that the extension invades its ownership.
She said: “The skylight they built, for which we perceived that they did not obtain a building permit, is mandatory and is not an aesthetic construction, extending from an aspect of the ceiling to and above an adjacent separation wall, and in fact they built it on our roof.
“Despite many conversations and emails with the owner since August 2019, they have not yet disposed of their construction of our assets and it has been more than six months since I gained some communication from them to verify what they are going to do. “
The applicant attributed the error to the “wrong command and control”.
But he had asked the council to keep the attic with some modifications, adding to cut the length of the flat-roofed attic that overlooks the garden.
He said: “I am satisfied that this slight replacement of the plan was not first intentional, but then we were stopped in terms of allocation due to compliance and it takes a long time to get a resolution on the new roof design. we present. “
Planning officials to approve retrospective application.
But Barton Councilman John Mullen said approving the application would inspire others to “do whatever they want” and rely on retrospective authorization.
He said: “The developer has gone out of bounds with existing manufacturing plans with primary structural adjustments to the roof.
“Despite what officials say, the elevation before is a real horror. It is mis-rather than in line with the environment.
“I think, personally, this developer is going to get into six independent apartments in a small townhouse. I’d hate to think about what living spaces are there.
Panel councillors voted to refuse permission to make retrospective plans.
Salford City Council is now the most productive way to ensure that assets comply with the design that had already been approved in 2018.
One spokesman said: “The plan-making committee rejected a request for partial retrospective plans for 1 Tetlow Grove on Thursday, October 29.
“To comply, construction will need to be changed to fit the building permit approved in 2018, especially the roof area. “
The developer has six months to make the Decision of the Salford Board.