®Planning appeal decision
Land at Ground Floor, 8 Millway, LONDON, NW7 3RE
Without planning permission, the construction of a single storey front porch extension
- Authority
- London Borough of Barnet
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Griffin E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the host building and the surrounding area
What decided it
The porch extension causes harm to the character and appearance of the host building and street scene through its excessive size, forward projection, and incongruous design, and fails to provide genuine disabled access despite being justified on that basis.
The appellant's arguments regarding modernisation and disabled access were outweighed by the harm to character and appearance, as the current design does not achieve genuine accessibility and the visual harm is not justified by the claimed benefits.
Framework references: 93
Plan policies cited: Policy CS1, Policy CS5, Policy DM01, Adopted Residential Design Guidance SPD (2016)
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