®Planning appeal decision
St. Nicholas House, 31-34 High Street, BRISTOL, BS1 2AW
a change of use of part of ground floor, and floors 1-5, from office (Use Class E(g(i))) to 23no. studio flats (Use Class C3a), including refuse, recycling and cycle storage at basement level (1no. commercial unit retained at ground floor level)
- Authority
- Bristol City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Parkin A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Transport, particularly to ensure safe site access
- The character and sustainability of the City and Queen Square Conservation Area
- The living conditions of future occupiers with particular regard to natural light in habitable rooms
What decided it
The proposal fails to provide adequate natural light in all habitable rooms as required by Paragraph W(2A) of Schedule 2, Part 3 of the GPDO, and the transport impacts relating to safe site access are unacceptable.
The acceptable effect on the character and sustainability of the conservation area was outweighed by the adverse transport effects and the inadequate natural light provision.
Judgments cited: Holborn Studios Ltd v The Council of the London Borough of Hackney (2018)
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