Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed2 August 20243340667

Dean Clough Mills, Car Park South Of Bowling Mill, Crib Lane, Halifax, HX3 5AX

Planning appeal 3340667 at Dean Clough Mills, Car Park South Of Bowling Mill, Crib Lane, Halifax, HX3 5AX (Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 2 August 2024 by Inspector Martinson P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the proposed advertisement on public safety.

Installation of 1 x 48 sheet freestanding LED illuminated advertising display unit, mounted on a two-legged support structure, measuring 6.4m in width x 3.4m in height and comprising a pressed metal frame and sealed LED screen

Authority
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
commercial · Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
advertisement · Other minor developments
Inspector
Martinson P
Postcode
HX3 5AX

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the proposed advertisement on public safety
  • the effect of the proposed advertisement on the amenity of the area

What decided it

The proposed LED advertisement would be positioned in close proximity to and in the same eyeline as traffic signal heads at a busy roundabout, creating an unacceptable distraction to drivers and thereby adversely affecting public safety.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy BT1

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

76 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 Calderdale

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

  1. Dismissed15 May 20266004855
    41 Market St, Hebden Bridge, HX7 6AA
  2. Dismissed6 November 20253368691
    Land North West of White Cottage, Cooper Bridge Road, Cooper Bridge, Calderdale, WF14 0BS
  3. Dismissed27 March 20253358328
    Oh So Tanned, 68 Commercial Street, Halifax, HX1 2JE
  4. Allowed25 January 20243330193
    Land Adjacent to Huddersfield Road (Between A629 and B6112), Stainland Road, Elland, Calderdale, HX3 9EW
  5. Dismissed24 October 20233310680
    New World Payphones Kiosks, Outside 5 Corn Market, Halifax, Calderdale, HX1 1RL

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.