Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice varied and upheld26 August 20253328646

14 Donnybrook Road, London, SW16 5AT

Planning appeal 3328646 at 14 Donnybrook Road, London, SW16 5AT (London Borough of Lambeth) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 26 August 2025 by Inspector King T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the loss of a family-sized dwelling to bed and breakfast accommodation in this area of the borough can be justified.

Without planning permission, the material change of use and amalgamation of two (C3) dwellinghouses into a (C1) bed and breakfast (‘the unauthorised bed and breakfast use’)

Authority
London Borough of Lambeth
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
King T
Postcode
SW16 5AT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the loss of a family-sized dwelling to bed and breakfast accommodation in this area of the borough can be justified
  • the development's effect on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers

What decided it

The loss of a single family dwelling to bed and breakfast accommodation in a residential area, contrary to local plan policies safeguarding housing stock and requiring visitor accommodation in town centres, outweighed the absence of harm to neighbouring living conditions.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy H3Policy ED14Policy E10Policy Q2

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

367 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 London Borough of Lambeth

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Dismissed26 October 20266013497
    48 Clapham Road, London, SW9 0JQ
  2. Allowed20 October 20266015494
    16 Lydon Road, London, SW4 0HW
  3. Dismissed20 October 20266015253
    16 Braxted Park, London, SW16 3DW
  4. Dismissed20 October 20266014222
    Morleys Department Store, 472 - 488 Brixton Road, London, SW9 8EH
  5. Dismissed20 October 20266014083
    Bus Shelter, Pavement Outside 451-453 Brixton Road, London, SE9 8HH

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.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.