75 Batchwood Drive, ST. ALBANS, AL3 5UF

a cross-over featuring a dropped kerb to enable access to a hard-standing in the front garden of the property

Authority: St Albans City Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Householder developments
Inspector: Savage K

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect on highway safety

What decided it

The position of the proposed access would pose significant risks to highway safety due to severely curtailed visibility in both directions and the likelihood that residents would have to reverse largely unsighted onto a busy road.

The potential benefit of gaining one off-street parking space was afforded only limited weight and did not outweigh the unacceptable risk to highway safety posed by the access in an unsuitable position within a highway environment already raising safety concerns.

Plan policies cited: Policy 34 of the St Albans District Local Plan 1994

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