Council turns down converting Rowley Regis home into nursery
A plan to turn a home into a nursery has been turned down by a council.
Omar Kazimi had planned to turn the detached three-bed house in Bell End, Rowley Regis, into a new nursery for up up to ten children but the application has been rejected by Sandwell Council.
The plans showed a ground floor conservatory and patio would have been removed and the house extended to make way for a new nursery activity room and toilets.
The first floor would have been turned into a three-bed self-contained flat.
Sandwell Council’s planners said the extensions would be “harmful” and disruptive for neighbours and the planned car parking serving the new nursery would be “inadequate.”
A report by the local authority’s planners outlining the decision said: “The massing and scale of the two-storey side and rear extension would not be subservient to the host property, would introduce a harmful terracing effect into the street scene and would have an unacceptable impact on light and outlook to rear habitable room windows of properties either side of the host property.
“The car parking area to the front of the property would be inadequate in that it would be difficult for users to manoeuvre out of spaces if all were occupied and is insufficient in number to serve the proposed mix of uses at the site.
“Additionally, the location of the access is unacceptable, sited in proximity to a bus stop and a lamppost on a busy road with potential for vehicle conflict and impaired visibility.
“The proposed nursery use is not compatible with the residential nature of the immediate vicinity and is likely to cause unacceptable levels of noise and disturbance to neighbouring residential properties, both by children playing in the rear garden area and by increased comings and goings related to pick up and drop off times.”
