Plans to convert a Tangmere restaurant into two homes have been refused by Chichester District Council.
The application to change the use of Cassons Restaurant, in Arundel Road (A27), also sought permission to build another two homes on the site.
The council received letters of support for the plans from 25 people, who felt the new homes would make efficient use of the land, especially given the need for housing in the area.
But planning officers gave the application the thumbs-down saying the development would ‘not create acceptable living conditions for future occupiers in terms of both noise levels and overheating within the dwellings’.
The officers’ report said: “The evidence indicates that windows would need to be closed in order for acceptable standards of internal noise comfort to be achievable.
“A strategy for managing this issue in overheating terms may well be possible.
“However, this overlooks the more fundamental question of whether, all things considered, the need to keep windows closed would make for a healthy and comfortable standard of accommodation that would be expected of a well designed proposal.”
