60 Severn Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 5PX

Planning appeal 3354638 at 60 Severn Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 5PX (Cheltenham Borough Council) was dismissed on 14 March 2025 by Inspector Manley N, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the host property and the surrounding area.

a two storey extension and loft conversion

Authority: Cheltenham Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Manley N
Postcode: GL52 5PX

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the host property and the surrounding area
The living conditions of the occupiers of 76 Wyman's Road with particular regard to outlook and privacy

What decided it

The proposal would cause unacceptable harm to both the character and appearance of the host property and surrounding area through inadequate setback and oversized dormer, and would result in unacceptable loss of privacy for neighbouring occupiers through direct overlooking of their rear garden.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy D1 of the Cheltenham Plan (2020)Policy SD4 of the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy (2017)Policy SL1 of the Cheltenham PlanPolicy SD14 of the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy (2017)
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.

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

90 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 Cheltenham Borough Council

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

Allowed23 October 20266011141
St Stephens Sports & Social Club, 52 Tivoli Street, Cheltenham, GL50 2UW
Dismissed22 October 20266014525
20 Marle Hill Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4LP
Allowed30 September 20266010276
76 Andover Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2TW
Dismissed4 September 20266008569
Land On The South Side Of Glenfall Way, Cheltenham, GL52 6XZ
Dismissed5 August 20266008771
17 Shelley Road, Cheltenham, GL51 7DN

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.