®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed28 February 20253354716
57 TURNER STREET, Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 2ND
change of use from C3 dwellinghouse to a residential children’s care home (use Class C2)
- Authority
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- community-institutional · Change of use
- Inspector
- Billings C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would provide acceptable living conditions for the future occupiers, in particular regard to existing anti-social behaviour in the local area
- the effect of the proposed development on the living conditions of the occupiers of nearby residential properties, in particular regard to noise and disturbance
- highway safety, in particular regard to on-street parking
What decided it
The high level of anti-social behaviour and police incidents in the local area would not provide an appropriately safe and secure environment for vulnerable looked-after children, and this harm outweighed the benefits of the scheme.
Plan policies cited: Policy CSP1 of the Newcastle-Under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent Core Spatial Strategy (October 2009)
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