2:54pm Wednesday 15th April 2009
By Matt Smith
RESIDENTS have won a fight against council plans to build 21 flats and seven houses on land opposite a primary school.
More than 100 residents signed a petition and filed objections to the proposed development with 19 new parking spaces on Southampton City Council land near Portswood Primary School.
Councillors on the city’s planning panel refused to grant permission and recommended civic chiefs withdrew their proposals.
Planners were forced to admit the plans breached the council’s own rules on the number of parking spaces and homes.
Householders living in Somerset Road, Brickfield Road and Northcote Road argued as many as 90 new residents would create traffic chaos and present a danger to school children.
Rafeal Persaud, 33, a banker, of Northcote Road, who started the petition said the development was too large and out of character with the “elegance”
of the neighbouring Victorian terraced buildings.
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