Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed12 June 20253359504

The Bulls Head, 4 Knowl St, Stalybridge, SK15 3AJ

Planning appeal 3359504 at The Bulls Head, 4 Knowl St, Stalybridge, SK15 3AJ (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 12 June 2025 by Inspector Walker R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal makes adequate provision for waste facilities and collection.

change of use from public house to 8 bedroom/person House of Multi Occupancy (HMO)

Authority
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Walker R
Postcode
SK15 3AJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the proposal makes adequate provision for waste facilities and collection
  • Whether the proposal would provide acceptable living conditions for future residents
  • The effects of the proposal on the living conditions of occupiers of neighbouring properties with particular reference to noise and disturbance

What decided it

The cumulative effect of inadequate waste management provision, poor living conditions for future occupiers due to ground floor bedroom positioning and layout deficiencies, and the overall failure of the scheme to function well, outweighed the absence of unacceptable harm to neighbouring properties.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy JP-P1 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development PlanPolicy H10 of the Council's Unitary Development Plan (UDP)
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

36 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 Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council

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

  1. Dismissed29 October 20266012606
    50-54 Grosvenor Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1RR
  2. Dismissed2 October 20266010069
    2, Ridge Hill Lane, Tameside, SK15 1NF
  3. Dismissed7 September 20266006049
    308 Stockport Road, Hyde, SK14 5RU
  4. Allowed21 August 20266009460
    157, Lodge Lane, Hyde, SK14 4LB
  5. Dismissed12 May 20263376330
    Land North Of Alney, Uplands Road, Hyde, Tameside, SK14 3AD

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.