®Planning appeal decision
Allowed18 September 20253369054
1 Coldstream, Ouston, ChesterleStreet, DH2 1LQ
conversion of one room in the property to a self- contained beauty salon
- Authority
- Durham County Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Change of use
- Inspector
- Lancaster K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the development on the living conditions of occupiers of 2 Coldstream, with particular regard to privacy, noise and disturbance
- the effect of the development on living conditions of existing or future occupiers of the host property with particular regard to the reduction in residential floorspace and privacy
What decided it
The limited scale of the beauty salon operation (one customer at a time, maximum five per day, restricted hours) combined with the absence of substantive evidence of harm to neighbouring or host property occupiers, and the Environmental Health Officer's lack of objection, justified allowing the appeal subject to conditions controlling the use.
Plan policies cited: Policy 6, Policy 29, Policy 31
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