®Planning appeal decision
679 High Road, LONDON, N12 0DA
the demolition of the existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide 250 residential units (Use Class C3) within 6 buildings ranging from 4 to 7 storeys, provision of new pedestrian route and access link, private amenity space, communal amenity and podium gardens, refuse storage, 63 car parking spaces and 457 cycle parking spaces, energy centre, substation building and other associated facilities
- Authority
- London Borough of Barnet
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Unknown
- Inspector
- Dillon C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the appeal proposal on the character and appearance of the area, with particular regard to height, scale and massing
- the effect of the appeal proposal on the living conditions of occupants of both existing neighbouring and proposed residential units, with particular regard to levels of privacy, outlook, daylight and sunlight
What decided it
The serious harm to the character and appearance of the area from the proposal's height, scale and massing, rendering it a development that was not well-designed and which paragraph 134 of the Framework required to be refused.
The very significant benefits of housing delivery and affordable housing provision were outweighed, under the tilted balance of paragraph 11d(ii) of the Framework, by the serious harm to character and appearance and the moderate harm to living conditions, such that adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits.
Framework references: 11, 126, 130, 134
Plan policies cited: Policy H2 (London Plan), Policy D3 (London Plan), Policy SI2 (London Plan), Policy H5 (London Plan), Policy CS5 (Barnet Local Plan Core Strategy), Policy DM01 (Barnet Local Plan Development Management Policies DPD)
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.