Newby ‘Unacceptable’ Housing Plan Rejected for Second Time

Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:13

By Anttoni James Numminen, Local Democracy Reporter

North Yorkshire Council has rejected a second ‘unacceptable’ proposal for a new residential property and the demolition of an existing building at a site near Scarborough.

The application to demolish the current property at 143-145 Burniston Road, Newby, and to construct a new residential building with five flats has been refused again.

Earlier this year, a government planning inspector ruled against the same applicant’s appeal over North Yorkshire Council’s decision to refuse permission to build a three-bed bungalow and a new four-bedroom house on the site.

The current building, located near Scarborough, has a two-bed flat and a three-bed flat with on-site parking.

During the new application, the proposal was amended to relocate the proposed main building and garages, reduce the height of the property, and to change the design of the front elevation.

The scheme was also changed to utilise the existing vehicular access at the north of the site, rather than forming a new access point at the south of the site, following concerns from the Highway Authority.

However, officers deemed the proposal “unacceptable” due to its impact of “overbearing, overlooking and loss of privacy” for neighbours.

Newby and Scalby Town Council said the development was “not visually attractive, is out of keeping with the area, and will have an overbearing impact on 147 Burniston Road due to the scale and massing”.

Planners said the “existing building currently on site is an attractive detached dwelling” and that the proposed replacement would be “very prominent in the street scene” and “out of character with the local area”.

Officers also assessed the application from the point of view of providing public open space and said that “the size of the development for 10 persons does not meet the threshold for provision”.

North Yorkshire Council, which rejected the development, concluded: “It is considered that the building to form five flats is of poor design as it fails to respond positively to the locality by virtue of its scale, form, height, fenestration and architectural detailing.”

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