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at first floor level, with the majority of the ground floor being variably recessed to form
shallow covered areas. The main school entrance would be relocated to a slightly south
of centre position on this elevation, relocating the current main school entrance from
Commonwealth Avenue and being further south than the entrance to the existing
Fatima Centre on India Way. There would be single storey elements on the north
eastern side of the new building and at its southern end, where there would also be a
canopy adjacent to the playground to the south of the building.
Daylight and sunlight
3.27 The nearest residential properties to the proposed new building are on the
opposite sides of Commonwealth Avenue to the north, and India Way to the west. There
is also a flat associated with the school located above the part of the school which
would be converted to form the new Fatima Parish Centre. On the northern side of
Commonwealth Avenue opposite the site sits a five-storey brick built residential building
typical of the White City Estate with south facing windows and balconies. This building
forms part of Havelock Close and its southern flank wall is a minimum of 18m from the
northern flank wall of the new school building. To the west, on the opposite side of India
Way, sits Malabar Court, an untypical building within the White City Estate with
alternately angled bay windows which rises from two-storeys at its southern end to fivestoreys
centrally, with a taller core behind, and falls back to three storeys at its northern
end. At the closest point of its projecting bay windows Malabar Court is 15m from the
closest point of the proposed building, the inverted sections of Malabar Court's
elevations being an additional metre away from the proposed building. The first floor flat
within the school site has westerly facing windows which would look towards the
proposed school building, however these are located a minimum of 24m from the
proposed building. To the south of the site, adjacent to the proposed building sits the
White City Community Centre. This building is to the south and a minimum of 22m from
the building and would not be detrimentally impacted upon by the proposed building.
3.28 The proposed building has been designed to ensure that the development would
not intrude across a 25-degree vertical angle taken from the centre of the lowest
windows in both Malabar Court and Havelock Close, and also the first floor flat within
the site, and would therefore pass the initial BRE test for windows opposite proposed
development and would thereby ensure that suitable sunlight and daylight to habitable
rooms would be maintained following the construction of the scheme. It is therefore
considered that no significant loss of sunlight or daylight would therefore occur to the
nearest residential windows.
Outlook
3.29 The only views of the proposed new school building for residential properties
would be from opposite the site to its north and west. As discussed with regards to
daylight and sunlight, at the closest point of its projecting bay windows Malabar Court to
the west is 15m from the proposed building and Havelock Close to the north is a
minimum of 18m from the proposed building. The first floor flat within the school site has
westerly facing windows which would look towards the proposed building, however
these are located a minimum of 24m from the proposed building. The height of the
proposed building on its northern and western elevation faces would be 7.6m, in
comparison with the maximum height of the existing Fatima Parish Centre of 6.3m.
Given the distances that the nearest residential windows are away from the proposed
building it is considered that there would not be any detrimental reduction in outlook to
neighbouring residential properties as a result of the 1.3m increase in height of the
building. It is acknowledged that the building would extend southwards of the existing