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

Planning appeal 3260876 at 279 Rosendale Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9EJ (London Borough of Lambeth) was dismissed on 28 April 2022 by Inspector Spencer D, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal proposal would result in the harmful loss of premises for employment generating purposes.

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
Postcode: SE24 9EG

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.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy E7(C) of London Plan 2021Policy ED4 of Lambeth Local Plan 2021Policies E2, E4 and E7 of the London Plan 2021Policy ED4 of the Lambeth Local Plan 2020-2035Policy H5 of the London PlanPolicy H2 of the LLPPolicy H4 of the LLPPolicy S4 of the London PlanPolicy D6 of the London PlanPolicy D13 of the London PlanPolicies H5 and Q2 of the LLPPolicy ED6(B) of the LLPPolicy ED6 of the LLPLondon Plan Policy E4(A)Policy T3(H)Policy T6.1(G) of the London PlanPolicy T6 of the LLPPolicy T6(D(i))Policy T6(D(iii))Policy SI2 of the London PlanPolicy EN4 of the LLPPolicy ED15 and Annex 9 of the LLPPolicy D4Policies T3, T4, SI1 and SI2 of the London PlanPolicies T1, T3, T6, EN4, ED15 and D4 of the LLPPolicy H1 of the LLP
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 57Paragraph 124Paragraph 125Paragraph 130Paragraph 187
Judgments: Hartley v MHLG [1970]; The Trustees of Castell-y-Mynach Estate v Ely-Taff Borough Council [1985]

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