Angle Cottage, 13 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, SURREY, RH2 8EF

installation of a sliding gate (including brick piers and driveway mirrors) at 13 Cockshot Hill, along with laurel hedges in order to provide privacy, beautify and reduce emissions (through carbon capture from the hedges)

Authority: Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Householder developments
Inspector: Pattison B

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area, including the Woodhatch Lodge historic park and garden of local interest and whether the setting of the grade II Listed Angel public house would be preserved
The effect of the development on highway safety, with particular regard to the potential for conflict between vehicles waiting to access the appeal site and other road users

What decided it

The proposal's stark design and prominent position cause harmful effects on the character and appearance of the area and the historic park and garden, combined with highway safety concerns from vehicles waiting at the gates projecting onto the carriageway.

Framework references: 203, 197

Plan policies cited: Policy DES1, Policy NHE9, Policy TAP1

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