Plans submitted to create two new houses on Lincoln Road, Newark

Plans to create two new homes in the rear gardens of a property and the convenience shop next door have been submitted.

The planning application, submitted by Manjit Gill, is looking to erect two new dwellings on what is currently the rear gardens of 43-45 Lincoln Road, Newark.

The gardens are to be retained, but reduced to create the proposed plot.

The houses would be attached, single-storey properties with a hipped roof, reflective of the adjacent new bungalow at 47A Lincoln Road.

Both properties have three bedrooms, with a large open plan kitchen, living, dining space, with direct access to the rear gardens.

The properties are said to have been designed to nationally described space standards to ensure adequate space, along with comfort and practicality to create quality, functional homes.

Currently, 43 Lincoln Road is a detached house constructed in the 1920s/1930s, and following a recent refurbishment, it has been upgraded into a modern three-bedroom family house.

The site at 45 Lincoln Road is a convenience store — One Stop — at the ground floor frontage, with a house in the rest of the building.

The living space is accommodated within a large ground-floor extension to the rear.

Both properties take access onto Lincoln Road, the dwelling via a driveway and the store via a dropped kerb footway crossing across the site frontage, which is a car parking area.

Access to the new two properties is proposed to be via the frontage of house 43, through a shared private driveway.

Nottinghamshire County Council Highway Authority said that the proposed shared driveway does not meet the required design standards.

The current layout omits the margins and is too narrow over this length, and the car parking spaces for both the new and existing houses do not meet minimum size requirements.

The plans also fail to provide covered, secure cycle storage with two spaces per dwelling, and it doesn’t show provision for cycle equipment storage or electric vehicle charging.

Officer Jamie Pegram of the Highway Authority said: “The highway authority recommends that this planning application should not be determined until the applicant has submitted revised details which satisfactorily address the above issues.”

The application will be discussed by members of the planning committee at Newark Town Council this Wednesday (June 25).