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A WESTCLIFF homeowner is fighting to keep a huge extension built without planning permission, despite having four retrospective applications rejected, and many complaints raised over the development.
Following a final warning letter, Southend Council issued an enforcement notice to the owner of the home, in Westborough Road, earlier this year ordering the extension to the bungalow is removed.
The extension is roughly eight metres deep, 8.5metres wide and 3.1metres high.
Now, the homeowner has lodged an appeal with the planning inspectorate.
Planning officers reported that the extension was “unacceptable in relation to design and residential amenity of neighbouring occupiers”.
The report continued: “The rear extension, by reason of its excessive size, depth, scale, bulk and height, its poor design and failure to integrate with the existing building appears as an incongruous and obtrusive, overly dominant feature, harmful to the character and appearance of the existing dwelling.”
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