®Planning appeal decision
Notice varied and upheld30 January 20233286670
46,48 and 50 Hurstwood Road, London, NW11 0AT
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
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.
Plan policies cited: Policy DM14, Policy DS7, Policy E1, Policy CS5, Policy DM01, Policy DM04
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.