5 Dalton Road, Lancaster, LA1 3HD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• Whether the development would provide suitable living conditions for future occupiers with particular regard to outlook and privacy and the adequate provision of external amenity space
• The living conditions of occupiers of surrounding dwellings with particular regard to overshadowing and privacy
• Whether the development provides adequate mitigation for the loss of existing trees on the site
• Surface water drainage

What decided it

The significant harm to the living conditions of both future and existing occupiers, combined with inadequate mitigation for loss of trees, substantially and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefit of two additional dwellings in an area with housing shortfall.

The limited benefits of providing two additional dwellings and moderate benefit from sustainable features were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by significant harm to living conditions of existing and future occupiers and to biodiversity, such that the proposal did not represent sustainable development.