19 Spenser Crescent, UPMINSTER, RM14 1AN

Proposed loft conversion under permitted development. Removal of pitched roof over the ground floor rear extension and the construction of a hip to gable roof, rear dormer window and roof lights. Retaining the front pitched dormer under previous planning application

Authority: London Borough of Havering
Appeal type: ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Lewis D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the refusal to issue a lawful development certificate is well founded, requiring consideration of whether the proposed works would constitute permitted development by virtue of Class B and Class C, Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 as amended

What decided it

The proposal was not described with sufficient precision in the submitted documents to enable a certificate of lawful development to be granted, particularly lacking a schedule of works and details confirming the side window specification.

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