®Planning appeal decision
20 Prospect Street, Tyldesley , M29 8AU
Planning appeal 3331173 at 20 Prospect Street, Tyldesley , M29 8AU (Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 31 May 2024 by Inspector Hobbs J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether Condition No 4 is necessary and reasonable, to protect the living conditions of neighbouring occupants, with regard to noise and disturbance, and parking provision, and future occupants, with regard to the provision of amenity space.
Conversion of former funeral directors (Class E) to form two dwellings (Class C3), external alterations to include insertion of new windows and door openings
- Authority
- Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Hobbs J
- Postcode
- M29 8SU
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether Condition No 4 is necessary and reasonable, to protect the living conditions of neighbouring occupants, with regard to noise and disturbance, and parking provision, and future occupants, with regard to the provision of amenity space
What decided it
The modest scale of the proposed dwellings, their separation from neighbouring properties, and the absence of substantive evidence of parking stress or material harm to neighbouring living conditions meant Condition 4 was not necessary or reasonable.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CP10
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 135
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.
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