Four Trees, Common Lane, Letchmore Heath, Watford, WD25 8EE

Planning appeal 3297646 at Four Trees, Common Lane, Letchmore Heath, Watford, WD25 8EE (Hertsmere Borough Council) was allowed on 30 August 2022 by Inspector Indermaur S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework, including the effect on the openness of the Green Belt.

the installation of swimming pool

Authority: Hertsmere Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Householder developments
Inspector: Indermaur S
Postcode: WD25 8EE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework, including the effect on the openness of the Green Belt
The effect of the development on the setting of the listed building and whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Conservation Area

What decided it

The swimming pool, being a modest-scale facility for private outdoor recreation ancillary to the dwelling, located within the curtilage and screened from view, preserves the openness of the Green Belt and does not harm the listed building or Conservation Area.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CS13Policy DASM26Policy CS22Policy CS14Policy SADM29Policy SADM30

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

48 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 Hertsmere

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

Allowed20 August 20266007465
Land Adjacent to No 51 Harcourt Road, Bushey, WD23 3PD
Allowed17 August 20266008668
Stables West Of Green Street, Shenley, WD7 9BA
Allowed27 July 20266007118
Land Rear of 5-23 Cobden Hill, Radlett, WD7 7JL
Allowed20 April 20266003184
69 Deacons Hill Road, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 3HZ
Allowed23 March 20263374962
Land South of Shenley Hill, Radlett, WD7 7EL

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.