Residents are complaining that a housing development would make a stretch of road dangerous for pedestrians.
A large 19th-century house on the corner of Woodstock Road and Squitchey Lane is to be knocked down to make way for flats.
Almost 100 residents signed a petition against the plans.
The owner of a strip of land at the south side of Squitchey Lane has refused to give it up to the highways authority to create a pavement.
Geraldine Flannagan told the committee the development would add to the number of accidents at the junction.
She said: "Minor accidents occur so regularly that one resident has had to keep a first aid kit."
The house on the corner of Woodstock Road and Squitchey Lane, formerly known as Apsley Croft, will be replaced by 12 flats under plans approved by the city council's area committee.
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