Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice upheld10 October 20253356437

5 Chertsey Lane, Staines-Upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 3JH

Planning appeal 3356437 at 5 Chertsey Lane, Staines-Upon-Thames, Surrey, TW18 3JH (Runnymede Borough Council) was dismissed on 10 October 2025 by Inspector Braithwaite J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice (unauthorised change of use from GP Surgery Class E to HMO Class C4) has occurred as a matter of fact.

the unauthorised change of use from GP Surgery (Class E) to a residential use as a house in multiple occupation (HMO ) (Class C4)

Authority
Runnymede Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Braithwaite J
Postcode
TW18 3JH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the breach of planning control alleged in the enforcement notice (unauthorised change of use from GP Surgery Class E to HMO Class C4) has occurred as a matter of fact

What decided it

The breach of planning control from Class E (GP Surgery) to Class C4 (HMO) was established as a matter of fact through evidence of actual HMO use at the date of the enforcement notice.

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

111 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 Runnymede Borough Council

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

  1. decided12 October 20266007528
    Land Known to the West of 203-221 New Haw Road, Addlestone, KT15 2DP
  2. Dismissed12 October 20266006766
    Land to the West of, 203 - 221 New Haw Road, Addlestone, KT15 2DP
  3. Notice varied and upheld13 July 20263377703
    Land Adjacent to Warren Farm, Green Road, Thorpe, Surrey, TW20 8QT
  4. Quashed On Legal Grounds10 April 20263375607
    Redlands Farm Lyne Lane, Virginia Water, GU25 4ES
  5. Notice upheld11 February 20263344981
    Loch Fyne, 28 Laleham Reach, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 8RR

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.