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PLANNING APPLICATIONS TURNED DOWN
BELOW are the planning applications which were refussed at a meeting of the borough council's planning committee this week.
MOBILE phone mast protesters have won the latest round against a phone company which wants to install a mast in Hampden Park.
Hutchinson 3G wanted to install a 12.5metre high mast on the public highway in Lindfield Road at its junction with The Broadway.
The planning application caused outrage among hundreds of residents, who put their names to a petition and wrote letters of objection urging councillors to throw the plans out.
They were concerned about the possible health hazards associated with mobile phone masts and said the area was highly populated with families with young children as well as local schools nearby.
Planners said the installation of the mast would be seriously detrimental to the visual amenities of the area and councillors sitting on the town's planning committee refused permission.
A HOMEOWNER'S dream to create a extend and convert a garage into a games room has been dashed by town planners.
The owner of the property in Ramsay Way had put in an application to extend the garage by 1.7 metres and then convert it into a games room and store.
But the council's planning committee turned it down, saying it would have an adverse impact on the amenities of the adjacent properties.
AN HISTORIC tree looks set to have saved a character home from being demolished to make way for a block of flats.
Developers wanted to knock down the house in Carew Road and build in its place a three-and-a-half storey block of 14 flats.
But the development was thrown out by town planners at a meeting of the council's planning committee on Tuesday after it was reported a mature Wheatley Elm tree in the street would have to be removed.
The council's aboricultural officer said in a report to the committee, "There is a mature Wheatley Elm within the highway to the front of the property. This tree is considered to be of good quality and forms part of the historic avenue planting, and so has clearly identifiable conservation and cultural benefits to the area."
Local residents living nearby had also objected to the plans saying it was an overdevelopment of the site and would increase traffic and parking problems on an already busy road.
Councillors refused the application because of the proposed loss of the tree and also said they felt it would be an overdevelopment.
A SECOND bid to knock down a church in Hampden Park and replace it with a terrace of houses has failed again.
Developers want to demolish St Luke's United Reformed Church in Elm Grove and build a terrace of four three bedroom houses. An earlier application to build a terrace of four four bedroom houses was turned down by town planners before Christmas and is currently the subject of an appeal by a Government inspector.
At a meeting of Eastbourne Borough Council's planning committee on Tuesday, councillors heard the plans for the church, which is redundant and empty, had been scaled down.
But they turned down the latest application on the grounds the redevelopment, which does not include any on-site car parking, would be an overdevelopment and would infringe the rights of local residents.
PLANS to convert a house in South Cliff Avenue into flats and a bedsit have been turned down by town planners.
Developers wanted to create two
two-bedroom flats, a one-bedroom flat and a bedsit within the house but councillors refused planning permission on the grounds it would be an overdevelopment of the site.
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