KCA submission on retention application

If the unauthorised development by James Browne beside The Hideout is granted retention permission, it would create an ‘undesirable precedence’ whereby developers could totally ignore a local authority’s planning conditions.

That’s the nub of an objection lodged by JJ Warren on behalf of Kilcullen Community Action, against the application for retention of the development.

“The application now lodged seeks to retain the development in its present form,” he says in the objection. “This simply could not be allowed as it goes against the entire arguments put forward by the planning department during the processing of the original application.”

The objection details the architectural and safety issues surrounding the development as built, using descriptions such as ‘hideous’, obtrusive’ and ‘totally overwhelming’.

Noting that a balcony area which is ‘totally at variance’ with the original permission opens out over ventilation pipes from the fuel storage tanks of the adjoining filling station, Mr Warren says this must give rise to ‘serious safety issues’ for occupants of the building, and indeed to the general public.

The planning reference is 09/1076