Plans to build nine new homes on land behind Welldon Crescent in Harrow have been refused by Harrow Council.
The application proposed a part two and part three-storey development containing nine terraced houses, along with parking, landscaping and bin and cycle storage.
The site is currently an open concrete yard used for car parking, with access from Springfield Road. It is around a five-minute walk from Harrow-on-the-Hill station.
Concerns over privacy
Council officers said some of the proposed homes would have been significantly closer than the typically expected 21-metre separation distance.
They also raised concerns about the height and scale of the development and said upper floors could lead to overlooking and loss of privacy for neighbouring residents.
Gardens and flooding
The council also found that the development would not provide adequate private outdoor space.
Four gardens would have been just four metres deep and all would have faced north, while eight of the nine homes were said to fail BRE standards relating to natural light.
Further concerns were raised over landscaping, trees and flood risk. The site falls within surface water Flood Zones 3b and 3a and a Critical Drainage Area, with officers saying the application had not shown the development would be safe from flooding.
Residents had also raised concerns about overlooking, parking, traffic, construction disruption and the impact on trees.
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