Planning appeal decision
14 Parkside View, Meanwood, Leeds, LS6 4NS
Planning appeal 3277800 at 14 Parkside View, Meanwood, Leeds, LS6 4NS (Leeds City Council) was allowed on 11 November 2021 by Inspector Madge M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the Council's refusal to issue a certificate of lawful development is well founded, turning on whether the appellant can show on the balance of probability that the proposed operational development would benefit from express planning permission.
an outbuilding to rear
- Authority
- Leeds City Council
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Madge M
- Postcode
- LS6 4NS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the Council's refusal to issue a certificate of lawful development is well founded, turning on whether the appellant can show on the balance of probability that the proposed operational development would benefit from express planning permission
What decided it
The appellant's appeal evidence demonstrated that the existing outbuilding and dwellinghouse are already fully utilised for other purposes, making the proposed outbuilding reasonably required to accommodate the home gym and store incidental to the dwellinghouse.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Emin v SSE & Basildon DC [1980] JPL 407; Cottrell v SSE & Tonbridge and Malling BC [1982] JPL 443
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
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.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision


More decisions in Leeds City Council
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2021
- Dismissed27 October 20266012772Lovell Park Hub, Wintoun Street, Leeds, LS7 1DA
- Dismissed20 October 20266012588Index House, 70 Burley Road, Leeds, LS3 1JX
- Dismissed19 October 202660120225 Robins Grove, Rothwell, Leeds, LS26 0LE
- Dismissed16 October 20266010100Vacant Site, Ings Grove, Guiseley, LS20 9FR
- Dismissed15 October 20266010414Ground Floor, 106 Burley Road, Burley, Leeds, LS3 1JP
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.
®