33A Gerrard Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 4NJ

Planning appeal 3327026 at 33A Gerrard Road, Whitley Bay, NE26 4NJ (North Tyneside Council) was allowed on 16 January 2024 by Inspector Storey P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the disputed condition is necessary and reasonable in terms of safeguarding the living conditions of the occupiers of the neighbouring property at No 33 Gerrard Road, with specific regard to the privacy of the side-facing kitchen window of No 33.

Variation of condition 1 of planning approval 22/01420/FULH. Position of kitchen window to be moved along existing wall

Authority: North Tyneside Council
Appeal type: householder · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Storey P
Postcode: NE26 4NJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the disputed condition is necessary and reasonable in terms of safeguarding the living conditions of the occupiers of the neighbouring property at No 33 Gerrard Road, with specific regard to the privacy of the side-facing kitchen window of No 33

What decided it

The repositioned window would not worsen the existing overlooking situation compared to the pre-existing window arrangement and garden views, and therefore the condition requiring fixed shut and obscure glazing was not necessary or reasonable under paragraph 56 of the Framework.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: DM6.2
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 56

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

10 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in North Tyneside

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

Dismissed29 September 20266011198
16 Howard Court,, Norfolk Street, North Shields, NE30 1NZ
Allowed23 September 20266006322
Land at Backworth Business Park, Eccleston Close, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE27 0RX
Dismissed7 August 20266007902
74 Trevor Terrace, North Shields, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE30 2DE
Dismissed8 July 20263368301
Unit 21, Mylord Crescent, Camperdown Industrial Estate, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE12 5UJ
Dismissed13 May 20266005500
43 Edwards Road, Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear, NE26 2BH

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.