Built in an exposed location, Seymour Drive is a relatively recent housing development for which a landscaping scheme was required to reduce its visual impact. Unfortunately much of that mitigation landscaping has not been secured while in the last couple of years landscaped areas have been acquired to generate financial gain through further development.

Were this application to be approved, we argued, it would be in breach of both the design intent of Nelson Road and condition 10 of the decision notice for Planning Application 15/1790/98/F which stated 'no vehicular or pedestrian access shall at any time be created from any part of the residential development hereby permitted onto the new highway to the west and north of the application site the subject of the planning permission dated 9th September 1994 Code No. 9/15/0973/94/3.'

The application was withdrawn.