School site homes bid set to be rejected

PLANS to build eight houses on the site of the former Broad Elms School in Whirlow look set to be refused by councillors at a meeting today.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Oct 2007, 12:00 BST
Updated 15th Oct 2007, 10:51 BST

Sheffield Council City Centre, South and East Planning and Highways Area Board has been recommended to throw out the plan for eight two-storey houses. Planning officials say the scheme is unsuitable for the green belt and does not include enough car parking.

The single-storey flat-roofed 1960s building of Broad Elms has been vacant for years and has grown increasingly derelict. The new Silverdale School is being built next to the site.

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Seven letters of objection to the housing plans have been received, including one from the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England.

Objectors say the application is "unacceptable and excessive" and that Broad Elms Lane would be unable to cope with additional traffic from any development.

Developers say their plan would remove an eyesore of a building and that more housing is needed in the area. They add that housing would a less intensive use of the site than a school.

Recommending refusal, officers said: "Residential development other than for purposes associated with agricultural or other acceptable green belt uses is inappropriate development.

"The application does not include sufficient justification for the redevelopment of the site as proposed."

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