Unit C, 22 Rossendale Street, London, E5 8TA

outbuilding at the rear of 22 Rossendale St for use as an indoor play area and mikvah (ritual pool) for the residents of the square

Authority: London Borough of Hackney
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Braithwaite J

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Appeal A: Whether the building was substantially complete and lawful on the date of the application (8 May 2021).
Appeal B: The design of the building and its effect on the character and appearance of the area.

What decided it

Appeal A: The building was not substantially complete on the application date as it was reconstructed (not repaired) from foundations and one wall remaining after 2008 demolition. Appeal B: The building's poor design and appearance seriously harm the character of the area and cannot be remedied by conditions; comprehensive redesign is required.

Plan policies cited: LP1, D4

Read the decision letter on the Inspectorate’s site

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.

Town Planner Pro

What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.
- Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
- Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
- Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
- Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.
Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site with its letter.
Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. Searched by meaning as well as by words, with the key case law counted live across the letters.
Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.
The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.

Join the waiting list

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every other appeal around it, with the full reasoning summary, the letter held on file, and the case law it applies.