®Planning appeal decision
Alexander House 205-207 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4LS
Change of use from office use Class B1a to residential use Class C3 to create 13 new residential dwellings. These are created 11 within the roofspace of the building and a further 2 units on Ground and 1st Floor. Prior Notification under Class O, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015
- Authority
- Reading Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Conde L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether prior approval should be granted having regard to the requirement to provide adequate natural light in all habitable rooms
What decided it
A condition requiring the residential use not to commence until the separate operational development approved under planning permission 210885 is complete is reasonably related to the subject matter of prior approval and can secure the necessary provision of adequate natural light to all habitable rooms.
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