35 Parkstead Road, LONDON, SW15 5HS

Without planning permission and within the last 4 years, the unauthorised installation of an air source heat pump at the first-floor rear elevation at the Property

Authority: London Borough of Wandsworth
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: utilities-energy · Householder developments
Inspector: Bond V

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the installation of the air source heat pump constitutes permitted development under Class G, Part 14 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015
Whether the requirements of the enforcement notice exceed what is necessary to remedy the breach of planning control and injury to amenity

What decided it

The air source heat pump at first-floor level fails to comply with the requirement to minimise effects on external appearance and local amenity so far as practicable, as a ground floor rear location is practicable despite efficiency losses.

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