Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed17 January 20233313017

15 Castle Close, Killinghall, North Yorkshire, HG3 2DX

Planning appeal 3313017 at 15 Castle Close, Killinghall, North Yorkshire, HG3 2DX (Harrogate Borough Council *) was dismissed on 17 January 2023 by Inspector Caines A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the rear dormer on the character and appearance of the host building and surrounding area.

loft conversion with rear flat roof dormer

Authority
Harrogate Borough Council *
Appeal type
householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Caines A
Postcode
HG3 2DX

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the rear dormer on the character and appearance of the host building and surrounding area

What decided it

The proposed dormer would be an unacceptably dominant addition to the roof that would harm the character and appearance of the host building, conflicting with local design policies and NPPF paragraph 134 on well-designed places.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy HP3Policy HS8 C)
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 134

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

17 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 Harrogate Borough Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Notice varied and upheld24 October 20243342036
    2 Sunnybank, Newall With Clifton, Otley, LS21 2HA
  2. Dismissed15 August 20243343446
    Store Rear Of 2 College Street , College Road And College Street Rear, Harrogate , North Yorkshire, HG2 0AH
  3. Dismissed1 March 20243321146
    Follifoot Ridge Farmhouse, Pannal Road, Follifoot , HG3 1DP
  4. Allowed27 February 20243329091
    Ashdown Lodge, Minskip Road, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, YO51 9HY
  5. Dismissed14 February 20243330284
    12-12A and 13 Devonshire Place, Harrogate, HG1 4AA

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.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.