Both applications were granted tonight as there were no planning rules that the committee felt were relevant, and they were almost certainly correct.
However many of the committee expressed strong misgivings over the quality of the accommodation being provided to their residents. Size of rooms, lack of laundry facilities, shared toilets, and over development all came in for criticism.
officers had to prevent a councillor who proposed adding a note that they were unhappy with the approved application.
I do hope that councillor Upex, who spoke in favour in the application with a series of concerns about the quality of the accommodation, will ask the housing department to reconsider some of the least impressive aspects of the accommodation.