48A Buckingham Road, Brighton, BN1 3RQ

Planning appeal 3357780 at 48A Buckingham Road, Brighton, BN1 3RQ (Brighton and Hove City Council) was dismissed on 17 September 2025 by Inspector James A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the retention of the works preserve a Grade II listed building, known as 'Numbers 45-58 and attached walls and gate piers', and any features of special architectural or historic interest that it possesses.

Replace one wooden framed back bedroom window and wooden framed lounge French windows with UPVC equivalents

Authority: Brighton and Hove City Council
Appeal type: other · Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Other minor developments
Inspector: James A
Postcode: BN1 3RQ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the retention of the works preserve a Grade II listed building, known as 'Numbers 45-58 and attached walls and gate piers', and any features of special architectural or historic interest that it possesses
The extent to which the works preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the West Hill Conservation Area

What decided it

The material harm to the special interest of the Grade II listed building caused by the use of UPVC windows and modern design, which fails to preserve the authenticity and integrity of the historic fabric, outweighs the limited public benefits advanced.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CP15 of the Brighton and Hove City Plan Part One, adopted March 2016Policy DM27 of the City Plan Part TwoPolicy DM26 of the City Plan Part Two, October 2022
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 215

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

635 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 Brighton and Hove City Council

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

Allowed26 October 20266014224
East House, Preston Park Avenue, Brighton, BN1 6HG
Dismissed6 October 20266011541
16 and 16a, Richmond Road, Brighton, BN2 3RN
Dismissed15 September 20266007266
23-24, Brunswick Square, Hove, BN3 1EJ
Dismissed26 August 20266009586
10 Windlesham Road, Brighton & Hove, Brighton, BN1 3AG
Notice varied and upheld12 August 20263356977
8 Queens Gardens, Brighton, BN1 4AR

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.