279 Rosendale Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9EJ

retention and restoration of front façade; demolition of buildings behind; the erection of part two, four and five storey buildings to provide 33 residential dwellings, communal amenity space, cycle parking and hard and soft landscaping; and other associated development

Authority: London Borough of Lambeth
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Spencer D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal proposal would result in the harmful loss of premises for employment generating purposes
Whether the development would make adequate provision for affordable housing in accordance with development plan policy
Whether the proposed development would provide acceptable living conditions for future occupiers, with regard to privacy, daylight, outlook and standard of private amenity space provision
Whether the proposed development would be appropriate to its location having regard to the adjacent railway arches and the agent of change principle

What decided it

Significant harm to the privacy and outlook of future occupiers, combined with harmful constraint on the economic potential of the adjoining railway arches, outweighed the benefits of the scheme.

The significant harm to the living conditions (privacy and outlook) of future occupiers and the harmful constraint on the railway arches' employment potential were not outweighed by the social, economic and heritage benefits of the scheme, so the balance tipped against granting permission.

Framework references: 11, 57, 124, 125, 130, 187

Plan policies cited: Policy E7(C) of London Plan 2021, Policy ED4 of Lambeth Local Plan 2021, Policies E2, E4 and E7 of the London Plan 2021, Policy ED4 of the Lambeth Local Plan 2020-2035, Policy H5 of the London Plan, Policy H2 of the LLP, Policy H4 of the LLP, Policy S4 of the London Plan, Policy D6 of the London Plan, Policy D13 of the London Plan, Policies H5 and Q2 of the LLP, Policy ED6(B) of the LLP, Policy ED6 of the LLP, London Plan Policy E4(A), Policy T3(H), Policy T6.1(G) of the London Plan, Policy T6 of the LLP, Policy T6(D(i)), Policy T6(D(iii)), Policy SI2 of the London Plan, Policy EN4 of the LLP, Policy ED15 and Annex 9 of the LLP, Policy D4, Policies T3, T4, SI1 and SI2 of the London Plan, Policies T1, T3, T6, EN4, ED15 and D4 of the LLP, Policy H1 of the LLP

Judgments cited: Hartley v MHLG [1970]; The Trustees of Castell-y-Mynach Estate v Ely-Taff Borough Council [1985]

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