®Planning appeal decision
29 Church Walk, WORTHING, WEST SUSSEX, BN11 2LT
Planning permission already granted for a double garage and would like to make a part change of use, to maintain it as a garage/storage and add the option to inhabit it on occasion. Therefore creating warm sleeping area, kitchen/washroom and washing facilities. This will be used for the benefit of the tenants, in 29 Church Walk as an over flow for guests and for me as the landlord, to have the ability to stay there
- Authority
- Worthing Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Cahalane R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal building is designed as ancillary to the ground floor flat of 29 Church Walk
- The effect of the appeal building on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers, with particular regard to privacy, noise and disturbance and external garden space
- Whether the appeal building would provide adequate living conditions for future occupiers, with particular regard to internal living space and external garden space
- The effect of the appeal building on the character and appearance of the surrounding area
What decided it
The appeal building's rooflights would allow unacceptably intrusive views into the rear gardens and windows of neighbouring properties Nos 31 and 33 Church Walk, causing significant loss of privacy contrary to Policy DM5 a) viii) of the Worthing Local Plan 2023.
Framework references: 135
Plan policies cited: Policy DM5 b), Policy DM5 a) viii), Policy DM2, Policy DM5, Policy DM16, Policy DM17, Policy DM18
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