®Planning appeal decision
Edward Rudolf House 69-85 Margery Street, LONDON, WC1X 0JL
Demolition of the existing building and erection of a 5-storey office (Use class B1a) building, with a plant enclosure and level access on the roof, and including affordable workspace, cycle parking, waste & recycling storage, a substation, plant, hard & soft landscaping and associated engineering works
- Authority
- London Borough of Islington
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Major offices/R&D/light industry
- Inspector
- Hill Z
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposed development would preserve the settings of nearby listed buildings, with particular regard to Nos. 21-23 Yardley Street and 25-37 and 38-39 Wilmington Square
- Whether or not the proposed development would conserve the setting of the New River Conservation Area
- The effect of the design of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the streetscene
- The effect on the living conditions of the occupiers of neighbouring properties having particular regard to daylight and outlook
- Whether the benefits of the proposed development, as well as any other relevant matters, would outweigh the harm in determining the planning balance
What decided it
The cumulative weight of harm to the streetscene and to the living conditions (daylight and outlook) of neighbouring occupiers, when added to the less-than-substantial heritage harm, outweighed the economic and employment benefits of the scheme.
the cumulative harms to heritage settings, the streetscene and neighbours' living conditions outweighed the substantial economic and employment benefits of the proposed office development
Framework references: 200, 202
Plan policies cited: ILPDM Policy DM2.3, ILPDM Policy DM2.1, ICS Policy CS9, ICS Policy CS13, ILPDM Policy DM5.1, LP Policy D3, LP Policy D4, LP Policy D6, LP Policy SD5
Judgments cited: Melanie Rainbird and The Council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2018] EWHC 657 (Admin)
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