In March a retrospective planning application was submitted to install an extractor flue and canopy connection “for the proposed conversion of the ground floor to restaurant” at 121 Mawney Road.
According to an odour impact assessment document, the property had wished to operate as an “Asian takeaway (Indian food etc)”.
This came only weeks after similar initial plans were withdrawn.
Last Friday (July 11), Havering Council confirmed it had refused the most recent application.
Plans were refused on July 11 (Image: Nat Nollid) It said the use of the ground floor as a restaurant past 6pm “would result in an unsatisfactory relationship by way of noise and disturbance that would be detrimental of the amenity and living conditions of neighbouring occupiers in the evenings and late at night.”
It was also deemed “likely to contribute unacceptably to existing levels of parking stress and limited on-street spaces within the locality the evenings and late at night”.
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The proposed extractor flue was judged to “appear as an incongruous and visually intrusive feature” within the street scene and would have an “adverse impact on the character and appearance of the locality”.
Applicant Avinash Tiwari declined to comment on the planning refusal.
Amongst these residents was Nat Nollid, who owns the property next door.
He told the Recorder: “The quality or lack of it and the eyesore has been mentioned by the planning decision: the owner should rectify and amend the extended property.”
Councillor Tim Ryan previously said he could not overly praise nor criticise a development but confirmed he “fully supports” his residents.
He added: “The actual development is overbearing for that area and it is out of character – it is too bulky.”
