46,48 and 50 Hurstwood Road, London, NW11 0AT

Planning appeal 3286670 at 46,48 and 50 Hurstwood Road, London, NW11 0AT (London Borough of Barnet) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 30 January 2023 by Inspector Phillips A, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the use is appropriate in this location with particular reference to its location outside a Town Centre and the resultant effect on the residential character of the area and viability of town centres.

the making of a material change of use of the outbuilding to the rear to use as an office and associated storage

Authority: London Borough of Barnet
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Phillips A
Postcode: NW11 0AT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the use is appropriate in this location with particular reference to its location outside a Town Centre and the resultant effect on the residential character of the area and viability of town centres
Whether or not the development represents an over-intensive use of the site with consequent harm to the living conditions of the occupants of neighbouring residential properties with particular reference to car movements, parking and noise and disturbance arising from the comings and goings from the outbuilding

What decided it

The office use, having become a separate planning unit no longer incidental to the dwellinghouses, failed the sequential test for town centre uses and caused harmful noise and disturbance to neighbouring residential occupiers, and no ground of appeal succeeded.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy DM14Policy DS7Policy E1Policy CS5Policy DM01Policy DM04

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