City council rejects Norwich dentist’s expansion plans
Norwich City Council has rejected plans to expand a dental practice in Earlham Road.
The application to create new parking spaces at Patnam Elphick & Associates has been turned down. The plans would have allowed the practice to use its garden as a new parking area. The existing spaces at the front of the premises, which are small and limited in number, would have been combined to create fewer, larger spaces, with the addition of at least five extra bays at the rear of the practice.
The practice owner submitted plans to provide better parking facilities as demand for treatment increases. The city council has already approved plans to extend the building by adding to the first floor, but permission was granted based on the practice improving its parking facilities. Now that the proposal to create a car park in the existing garden has been thrown out, the expansion project has hit another stumbling block.
The latest rejection marks the third unsuccessful attempt to solve the parking problem. The council’s highways team highlighted issues, including access to the building, increased vehicle noise for residents, damage to nearby trees, loss of green space and a loss of privacy for neighbouring properties.
The statement accompanying the plans claimed that using the garden, which is surplus to requirements, for parking would facilitate the expansion of parking facilities, for which there was an ‘obvious need.’ It also stated that there is currently a substantial waiting list, adding that the practice would be able to increase its capacity once the work had been completed.
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