13 Bellamy Drive, STANMORE, HA7 2DD

single storey rear extension, rear dormer extension under permitted development and conversion of dwelling house into two one bedroom flats; bin and cycle storage; car parking; associated landscaping

Authority: London Borough of Harrow
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Clark L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the development would provide adequate living conditions for future occupiers, with regard to external amenity space and privacy within the ground floor flat

What decided it

The lack of adequate privacy safeguards for ground floor occupiers and insufficient external amenity space due to the design of the communal garden and direct overlooking from the upper flat windows and door.

Framework references: 135

Plan policies cited: Policy DM3(7) of the London Plan, Policy DM1 of the HDMP, Policy DM26 of the HDMP, Policy DM27 of the HDMP

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