Neighbours oppose plans for 3m increase to Broadwater building

Councillor Paul Baker with nearby residents Tony Parsons, Pat Young and Anthony Young

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Neighbours are '˜very concerned' over proposals to add a second storey to a building in Broadwater because they say they will lose their privacy.

Glawood Ltd has submitted an application to increase the height of Glawood House, a building in Sompting Road, by three metres to provide nine additional residential units.

Anthony Young, 76, of Wigmore Road, said the development would be ‘an inconvenience’.

He said: “The new development will have balconies which will overlook Wigmore Road and take away our privacy – they will be able to look into the bedrooms.”

It would also create a problem for residents on Kingsland Road, whose homes back on to the border of the Glawood House property.

Mr Young said: “Another storey and they will lose all their chance of sunlight at all.”

He added that it would also increase the strain on parking in an area where streets are already ‘virtually full every evening’.