®Planning appeal decision
3 Pains Road, SOUTHSEA, PO5 1HE
C4 (house in multiple occupation) use to Sui Generis use (House in multiple occupation for over 6 persons)
- Authority
- Portsmouth City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Small M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the development on the integrity of the Solent Special Protection Areas (the SPAs)
- whether the proposed development provides satisfactory living conditions, with particular regard to personal and communal space and access to bathroom facilities
What decided it
The development would have an in-combination adverse effect on the integrity of the Solent SPAs from increased recreational activity and wastewater discharge, and no adequate mitigation mechanism had been secured before the Inspector.
The satisfactory living conditions provided by the development did not outweigh the likely significant adverse effect on the integrity of designated habitats sites for which there was no adequate mitigation.
Plan policies cited: Policy PCS13, Policy PCS23
Judgments cited: Bernard Wheatcroft Ltd v SSE [JPL 1983 P37]
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.