4 Caistor Road, Gretton, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 3DL

Planning appeal 3275800 at 4 Caistor Road, Gretton, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 3DL (Corby Borough Council *) was dismissed on 22 November 2021 by Inspector Troy D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the host property and the area, including whether it would preserve or enhance the Gretton Conservation Area.

conversion of existing garage into annex accommodation; the erection of a ground floor link block to the main dwelling; erection of a rear ground floor extension with connecting corridor to main dwelling

Authority: Corby Borough Council *
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Troy D
Postcode: NN17 3DL

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the host property and the area, including whether it would preserve or enhance the Gretton Conservation Area

What decided it

The scale, siting and design of the proposed extensions would cause less than substantial but significant harm to the character and appearance of the conservation area, with insufficient public benefit to outweigh that harm.

The less than substantial harm to the character and appearance of the Gretton Conservation Area was weighed against the appellant's desire to provide additional living accommodation and secure the property's optimum viable use, but the harm outweighed the benefits.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy 2 of the North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy 2016Policy 8 of the North Northamptonshire Joint Core Strategy 2016
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 202

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

1 other decided appeal within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Corby Borough Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2021

Dismissed5 March 20243320484
3 Masefield Way, Corby, NN17 2NL
Dismissed22 January 20243275791
Peasdale Hill Field, Ashley Road, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, LE16 8YP
Quashed On Legal Grounds22 January 20243269943
Peasdale Hill Field, Middleton , Corby, LE16 8YP
Notice varied and upheld25 May 20233300462
2, The Brontes, Corby, NN17 2NH
Dismissed25 May 20233298816
2 The Brontes, Corby, NN17 2NH

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.