Fitzpatrick lodges fresh plans for building at home
FORMER Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has lodged revised plans for a house adjacent to his Greystones home, in a bid to address Wicklow County Council’s privacy concerns.
Last January, the Council told Mr FitzPatrick he was unlikely to receive planning permission for his new home if he could not address the council’s privacy concerns. The council had asked Mr FitzPatrick and his wife, Catriona to demonstrate that their development would not have a significant impact on the residential amenities and privacy of adjoining properties.
The planning authority placed the plan on hold in January after one neighbour, Fintan Graham, lodged an objection claiming that the proposal will negatively impact the residential amenity of nearby existing dwellings.
The planning consultant for Mr FitzPatrick, Kevin Hughes of Hughes Planning and Development Consultants, has told council planners that ‘the appropriately scaled development will not give rise to any undue impacts on the amenity of any adjacent properties’.
Mr Hughes said the proposal ‘is in accordance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area’.
Some of the ‘key revisions’ to the planned home and boundary proposed to address the privacy concerns include the introduction of 1.8 metre-high hedging and the planting of six yew trees along the boundary separating the home from neighbours’ properties.
The key revisions to the home include the reduction of first floor glazing on two sides through the introduction of solid walls and opaque panels. The western terrace of the home at first-floor level is to be significantly reduced in depth and the staircase to the lower level is to be relocated. The planning report points out that even without making the revisions, the house as planned would have limited visibility of neighbours’ properties to the east and west. The report lodged by Mr Hughes said the revisions to the proposal ‘are considered to dispel any overlooking impacts arising from the proposed development on properties to the west and east’. The FitzPatricks’ plan consists of four bedrooms, including two en-suite rooms, at ground level.
Each bedroom would have access to an external terrace. At first-floor level, the dwelling will comprise an entrance hall, family room, living room and a kitchen/dining room.