®Planning appeal decision
90 A Market Street, WIRRAL, CH47 3BD
conversion of first floor to apartments, with additional second floor, creating 6 nr one bedroom apartments and 2 two bedroom apartments. Eight apartments in total with ground floor access and amenity areas. Ground floor of building to remain as retail units
- Authority
- Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Bromley N
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposed development on the living conditions of the neighbouring occupiers of 8A Hadfield Avenue and 92A Market Street, with particular regard to privacy and outlook
- whether appropriate living conditions would be provided for the future occupiers of apartment 5, with particular reference to outlook from a bedroom window
What decided it
The unacceptable harm to the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers at 8A Hadfield Avenue through loss of privacy and the provision of unsatisfactory living conditions for future occupiers of apartment 5 substantially outweighed the modest housing and visual benefits of the scheme.
the modest benefits of housing delivery and visual improvement were substantially outweighed by the unacceptable harm to neighbouring living conditions and inadequate living conditions for future occupiers
Framework references: 48
Plan policies cited: Policy HS4, Policy HS13, Policy SH7, Policy HS5, Policy H1, Wirral Supplementary Planning Document 2 – Designing for Self-Contained Flat Development and Conversions
Judgments cited: Holborn Studios Ltd v The Council of the London Borough of Hackney [2017] EWHC 2823
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.