®Planning appeal decision
Willesden Green Garage,, St Pauls Avenue, London, NW2 5TG
the demolition of MOT garage and erection of a part eight storey and part four storey building with basement level to provide 86 self-contained flats with ground, third and fourth floor amenity space, provision of basement car parking, cycle and refuse storage, alterations to vehicular accesses and associated landscaping
- Authority
- London Borough of Brent
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Cryan M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would provide adequate external amenity space for future occupiers
- Whether the proposed development would provide sufficient family housing
What decided it
The combined harm from inadequate external amenity space and insufficient family housing, which carried considerable weight and outweighed the moderate benefit of a net increase in housing provision.
The moderate benefit of providing 86 dwellings (a net increase of 10 units over the 2021 permission) was outweighed by the considerable harm arising from inadequate amenity space and insufficient family housing provision.
Plan policies cited: Policy D6 of the London Plan 2021, Policy DMP19 of the 2016 Brent Local Plan Development Management Policies Plan, Draft Policy BH13 of the emerging Brent Local Plan, Policy CP2 of the 2010 Brent Core Strategy, Draft Policy BH6 of the emerging Brent Local Plan, Policy DMP1 of the DMPP, Policy DMP15 of the DMPP
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.