Car Park, Wellington Street, Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 7NE

the siting of a storage container

Authority: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Kempton N

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Effect of the development on the significance of designated heritage assets, with particular regard to the Church of the Nazarene and Ashton Town Centre Conservation Area
Living conditions of neighbouring occupiers at numbers 94, 96 and 98 Wellington Street, with particular regard to outlook

What decided it

The harm to the significance of the designated heritage assets and the detrimental effect on neighbouring residents' outlook could not be justified by the limited public benefits of the proposal.

Framework references: 202, 212, 213, 215, 135

Plan policies cited: Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan (2024) Policy JP-P2 Heritage, Tameside Unitary Development Plan (2004) Policy C2 Conservation Areas, Tameside Unitary Development Plan (2004) Policy C4 Control of Development in Conservation Areas, Tameside Unitary Development Plan (2004) Policy C6

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Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
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