Plans for major new 48-unit housing on site of Peterborough city centre car park refused
The car park is located between New Road and Brook Street, close to Peterborough city centre.
Plans for a major redevelopment of Brook Street car park in Peterborough city centre have been refused.
Planning officers raised concerns about the loss of car parking spaces in the city centre as well as noise and privacy impacts for potential new and existing residents.
The 85-space car park sits in between Brook Street and New Road and is located next to the former MFA Bowl.
The outline renovation plans included a total of 48 new residential units, made up of 7 two-bed houses, 14 one-bed flats, 21 two-bed flats and 6 three-bed flats.
As well as this, one commercial unit (192 square metres in size) was also proposed along with 73 parking spaces, 142 bicycle parking spaces and a podium deck for residents to use.
Outline permission was first granted for a residential development on the site in 2006 and this was extended in 2012, however, the scheme was recently been redesigned; the original, developed 18 years ago, was for 39 units over four floors.
Officers rejected the application stating: “The proposed development would displace up to 85 car parking spaces. Insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that there is sufficient capacity within other existing city centre car parks and allocated on-street parking to cater for these displaced vehicles, and ensure that these displaced vehicles would not park in unsafe locations within the public highway, at the detriment to the safety of other highway users.
"Insufficient information has been provided to demonstrate that the proposed development would preserve the setting and significance of the Grade 1 Peterborough Cathedral, City Conservation Area or Park Conservation Area, or identified Cathedral views.
"The application proposal fails to make provision for additional infrastructure and community facilities in terms of securing affordable housing, off-site public open space, onsite or off-site tree planting or biodiversity enhancements, which are necessary as a direct consequence of development.”