®Planning appeal decision
Offices And Premises At Unit 5 Ground Floor 37 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PP
change of use of part of the ground floor from Class E (office) to Class C3 (residential) with associated external alterations
- Authority
- London Borough of Camden
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Storey P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would accord with the policies of the development plan relating to affordable and car-free housing
- whether future occupiers of the proposed development would be provided with suitable living conditions, with specific regard to sunlight, outlook and internal layout
What decided it
The failure of the Unilateral Undertaking to include monitoring costs and indexation provisions meant the development could not secure the necessary mitigation to comply with affordable housing and car-free housing policies, and this conflict with the development plan was not outweighed by the limited benefits of the proposal under the paragraph 11.d) balance.
The benefits of providing an additional dwelling in a sustainable location with defined housing need and efficient land use were limited and were outweighed by the conflict with the development plan when assessed against the Framework as a whole under paragraph 11.d).
Framework references: 58, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy H4, Policy T2, Policy DM1, Policy D1, Policy H6, Policy D3, Policy D6
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.