A TREND for building flats in Littlehampton seems to be on hold, as three planning applications have been turned down in one road.
The proposals, all centred on Terminus Road, were judged by Arun District Council to represent an overdevelopment of the area.
A plan to convert the recently closed Railway Club into 26 apartments has been turned down, and proposals to demolish the Littlehampton Tyre and Exhaust Centre, and replace it with 11 one-bedroom and three two-bedroom apartments, have also been rejected by the council.
Officers who took the decision on the tyre and exhaust centre site stated: "The local planning authority is not satisfied that the development proposed could be undertaken without being unneighbourly and giving rise to an overdevelopment of the site . This would give rise to an unsympathetic visual intrusion, conflicting with the character and appearance of the area."
Similar reasons were given for the refusal of an initial planning application to redevelop the Locomotive pub site.
The original plans for four two-bedroom and 10 one-bedroom flats were rejected by Arun, but a further scheme, reduced to six two-bedroom and one one-bedroom flats, and including retail space, has now been approved.
A spokesman for Arun said: "We deal with every planning application on its own merits, giving special attention to the context of the site and its relationship to surrounding areas and buildings.
"For this reason, the proposed development of flats in Terminus Road has been scaled down to reduce the number of units, and the designs have been amended."
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