Reigate Grammar School, Reigate Road, Reigate, RH2 0QS

the demolition of existing music drum room and 4 Multi Use Games Areas and construction of a new sports centre, including ancillary facilities, and 4 new Multi Use Games Areas, together with revisions to site levels, drainage, plant, landscaping and other associated works

Authority: Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Price A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposed development on the living conditions of the neighbouring occupiers at 3 Blackborough Close and Reigate Parish Church Primary School, with particular regard to overbearing and obtrusive impacts

What decided it

The substantial separation distances between the proposed sports hall and neighbouring properties, combined with intervening landscaping and design modifications, meant the development would not result in harmful overbearing or obtrusive impacts on living conditions.

Framework references: 209

Plan policies cited: Policy DES1, Policy NHE9

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