®Planning appeal decision
Land at 72 Watsons Green Road, Dudley, DY2 7LF
Planning appeal 3277699 at Land at 72 Watsons Green Road, Dudley, DY2 7LF (Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 26 November 2021 by Inspector Hanson S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: 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.
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
- Postcode
- DY2 7LF
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.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- 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)
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 appliedThe decision letter
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