®Planning appeal decision
Unit H (first floor), 52-54 White Post Lane, Hackney Wick, London, E9 5EN
change of use of southern part of the first floor (Unit H) from commercial (Use Class E) to residential use (Use Class C3), to create six new dwellings, along with external alterations
- Authority
- London Legacy Development Corporation
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Douglas L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would result in an unacceptable loss of employment floorspace
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate through appropriate marketing strategies and evidence that Unit H could not be reasonably marketed to meet the strong local demand for small, flexible office floorspace, and provided no viability appraisal or other overriding factors to justify the unacceptable loss of employment floorspace contrary to Policy B1.
The Inspector attached substantial weight to the harm caused by the proposal's failure to accord with the development plan and was not persuaded by Government measures encouraging office-to-residential conversion or the argument that the loss represented only 6% of the development's commercial floorspace to outweigh this harm.
Plan policies cited: Policy B1
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.