| Conditions or Reasons: | 1)
The application site is prominently located at one of the principal approaches to the Martlesham Heath Village and comprises a landscaped amenity area that was specifically laid out as one of the structural landscaped areas associated with the original development at Martlesham Heath. The application site, together with other land, forms part of one of the wide areas of open space that were designed to separate the various hamlets of housing that comprised the Martlesham Heath development. These areas, including the application site, are identified on the Proposals Map of the Suffolk Coastal Local Plan (Incorporating the First and Second Alterations) as areas to be protected from development.
The application, which proposes the erection of a dwelling and an equipped children's play area, is contrary to the original design intent for this part of Martlesham Heath and is contrary to Local Plan policies AP19, AP28, AP39 and AP40 which seek to ensure the provision of adequate amenity open space within residential developments, and to prevent development that would comprise poor design and layout or otherwise seriously detract from the character of their surroundings. Policy AP28 specifically seeks to resist development that would materially detract from the character and appearance of those areas identified on the Local Plan Proposals Map as areas to be protected from development.
The erection of a dwelling and the provision of a children's play area would seriously erode the visual amenity and character of this prominent approach to Martlesham Heath and would, if approved set a most unfortunate precedent for similar proposals elsewhere at Martlesham Heath and which the Local Planning Authority would find very difficult to resist. The overall likely result would be a progressive and significant erosion of the character and appearance of Martlesham Heath contrary to the above-mentioned policies.
2)
The proposed equipped children's play area, by reason of its proximity to existing dwellings, would result in a significant loss of the amenity that the occupiers of those dwellings could reasonably expect to enjoy as a result of noise nuisance and general disturbance, contrary to the provisions of Local Plan Policy AP39. Furthermore, the location of the proposed play area immediately adjacent to a roundabout on a busy local distributor road would not provide an attractive play environment for children using the play area, or those supervising children on the site.
3)
Eagle Way has been designed and constructed as a Local Distributor Road, and as such it is not intended to serve frontage development with individual accesses. The proposed vehicular access for development is located near to the Eagle Way roundabout with limited visibility for vehicles coming from the A12. Vehicles waiting to turn right into the proposed access will cause obstruction and dangers for other road users and may lead to rear end collisions, to the detriment of highway safety.
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