11B The Grove, Carnforth, LA5 9JE

Planning appeal 3288923 at 11B The Grove, Carnforth, LA5 9JE (Lancaster City Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 7 April 2022 by Inspector Ellison H, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Appeal A: whether the proposal would accord with Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 1, Class AA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

the construction of an additional storey to an existing dwellinghouse with a maximum roof height of 10.491 metres

Authority: Lancaster City Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Ellison H
Postcode: LA5 9JE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Appeal A: whether the proposal would accord with Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 1, Class AA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)
Appeal B: the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area

What decided it

Appeal A: the unacceptable external appearance caused by the significant increase in height, bulk and mass disrupting the visual consistency of the group of three properties. Appeal B: the sympathetic design of the alterations as subservient additions that would not harm character or appearance.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy DM29 of A Local Plan for Lancaster District 2011-2031, Part Two: Review of the Development Management DPD (July 2020)
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 130

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 applied

The 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.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

28 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Lancaster City Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2022

Dismissed27 October 20266012921
Land Off Deer Park Lane, Hornby, Lancaster, LA2 8LF
Dismissed26 October 20266015073
Barn At Grid Reference 350285 458603, Littlefell Lane, Lancaster, LA2 0RF
Dismissed13 October 20266010136
Cromwell Buildings, Rosemary Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1NH
Dismissed13 October 20266009206
Cumberland View Hotel, Heysham Road, Heysham, LA3 1DE
Dismissed5 October 20266013203
24 Hazelwood, Silverdale, LA5 0TQ

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.