®Planning appeal decision
153-155 HIGH STREET, PENGE, LONDON, LONDON, SE20 7DS
change of use B1(a) use and delivery of seven flats on upper floors
- Authority
- London Borough of Bromley
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Bowyer J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not living conditions for future occupiers of the development would be acceptable, having regard to outlook, privacy, the quality of external amenity space, and noise and disturbance
- whether or not the proposal would make adequate provision for cycle storage
What decided it
The severe and unmitigable harm to the living conditions of future occupiers of Flats 2, 3 and 6, combined with the failure to provide adequate cycle storage, meant the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits.
The significant harm to living conditions of future occupiers and the failure to provide adequate cycle storage significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefits of housing delivery, fire safety compliance and modernisation, so the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy 4, Policy 37, Policy 97, Policy D6, Policy 30, Policy T5
Judgments cited: Bernard Wheatcroft Ltd v SSE [JPL 1982 P37]
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.