®Planning appeal decision
30 Trumpington Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 8AQ
Retrospective part single and part two storey side extensions without complying with conditions attached to planning permission Ref 16/1267/FUL, dated 24 May 2017
- Authority
- Cambridge City Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Gethin T
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposed development on the living conditions of adjoining occupiers, with particular regard to overlooking of the new dwelling to the north from the eastern-most first-floor window on the northern elevation and of the occupiers of No 3 Porson Road from the proposed use of the flat roof as a roof garden
What decided it
The presence of an unrestricted window providing similar views to the restricted window, combined with the normal expectation of some mutual overlooking in residential areas and the screening provided by boundary treatment and vegetation, meant that the obscure glazing condition was neither necessary nor reasonable.
Plan policies cited: Policy 58 of the Cambridge Local Plan, Cambridge Local Plan 2006 policies 3/4 and 3/14
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