The site for the proposed construction lies at the Northern end of a plot of land which also has the Trophy Cars sales business and the Harvest Home public house. The site is surrounded by roadways on the West (Copnor Road), North (Moneyfields Lane) and East (Coniston Avenue).

The properties adjacent to the site currently enjoy the amenity of a secluded environment marked by the Moneyfields Lane (a private road) bordering the East Side Copnor Road property 128 Copnor Road (see below).



Moneyfields Lane provides access to the Northern end of Coniston Avenue providing the general view below:



Although lying just a few metres from Copnor Road Coniston Avenue has a "close" character. This is sustained by all of the properties facing the Avenue with small front gardens and opposite there is no access to the Avenue because of a continuous high wall, that is over 2 metres high.

Because of the wall and there being no access from the three parts of the site directly into the Avenue, cars can park on both sides of the Avenue.

Houses in Coniston Avenue are West-facing and enjoy a light open atmosphere with views of sunsets in the evening. A more practical "green issue" is that in the morning periods the houses are receive some solar heat at the back and then a simiar effect during the afternoon of something like seven hours direct sunlight at the front in the summer. The proposed housing units to be constructed on the 112 Copnor Road site will be about a metre higher and they are set back from Copnor Road ioth their backs facing towards the Coniston Avnue houses. This means that direct sunlight will be cut by around 4 pm in the afternoons reducing the direct solar incidence from seven to three house cutting the heating effect. In the non summer months the Avenue will be sooler and likely to be damper.

Parking conditions will be worsened by a demand for 21 parking spaces as opposed to 14 (the plan has unexplicably increased the nunmber of bedrooms from 3 per unit to 4 per unit) and the Portsmouth Plan applies Hampshire partking standards of up to 3 cars per unit for 4 bedroom units. Currenlty there is no space for extra cars and the City has made no provisions.

Back entrances will ruin the general amenity of Coniston Avenue as has been typical in many streets in Portsmouth (the most obvious being the opening of the back entrances for Bembridge Crescent houses in Southsea into Parkstone Avenue even although convenants forbade this).

The nearest construction of the same dimensions, unit density and height as the proposed plan is to be found on West Side Copnor Road and this is shown below. Clearly not typical of the adjacent buildings surrounding the site on East Side Copnor Road. Note the ver-bearing appearance of the fonts of these houses and the drab appearance of the back entrances of these properties the impact on the amenity of Coniston Avenue is more than apparent.