35 Bedford Avenue, HAYES, UB4 0DP

a ground floor side extension, first floor rear extension and a change of use from a house to two flats

Authority: London Borough of Hillingdon
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Thomas M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the change of use of the dwelling on highway and pedestrian safety and parking feasibility
Living conditions for future occupants of the first floor flat with regard to living space, space on which to provide landscaping and adequacy of access and usability of proposed private amenity space for the first floor flat

What decided it

The proposal failed to demonstrate safe and feasible access to parking and amenity space for the ground floor flat and inadequate internal living space for the first floor flat, with reliance on an accessway outside the application site where other landowners had not been notified.

Plan policies cited: DMT 2, DMT 6, T6, DMHB 16, D6, DMHB 14, DMHB 18, DMH 1

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