®Planning appeal decision
Land at 72 Watsons Green Road, DUDLEY, DY2 7LF
without planning permission and within the last four years, the erection of a single storey rear extension on the Land (as shown on the attached photographs labelled Photo 1 and Photo 2)
- Authority
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hanson S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the development on highway safety in terms of the accessibility of the site for service vehicles and the displacement of service and resident/customer vehicles onto the public highway
What decided it
The rear extension prevents service vehicles from accessing the site safely and in a forward gear, creating an unacceptable highway safety risk in a sensitive location near schools and bus stops, and this harm cannot be remedied by an alternative scheme outside the scope of the enforcement notice.
Plan policies cited: Policy TRAN2 of the Black Country Core Strategy (2011), Policy S6 of the Dudley Borough Development Strategy (2017), Policy S17 of the Dudley Borough Development Strategy (2017)
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.