This is a development of a back-of-street former print works for 88 flats, with no retail or workshop uses incorporated. It is some 200 metres off West Street, and is adjacent to Airpoint, a noted 2007 housing conversion of the former Mail Marketing building. The Society’s view is that the wrong layout was chosen in the first place and the site is overdeveloped, with insufficient amenity for its own residents, and an unacceptable impact on daylight, both internally and among neighbours.
It is a car-free proposal in a relatively high car dependency area. It is an isolated site with constrained access due to hill topography, existing development and the main railway line below. Public transport and services improve from a quarter mile to half mile walk-range.
The neighbours’ objections centre on parking and over-shading.