®Planning appeal decision
Apartment 10, 67 Tufton Street, LONDON, SW1P 3AF
the “amalgamation of two residential units: Flat 10 (three bedrooms) and Flat 11 (one bedroom) – to create a single family dwelling in order to better accommodate the needs of the household”
- Authority
- City of Westminster Council
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Unknown
- Inspector
- Hunter A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the loss of a 1-bedroom unit
- whether there is a need for the amalgamated flats
What decided it
The need for the amalgamated accommodation to facilitate multigenerational family living and provide care for a dependent family member with a protected characteristic, combined with the absence of material harm to housing supply and the likely non-material-change-of-use status, outweighed the minor conflict with City Plan Policy 8.
The minor conflict with City Plan Policy 8 was substantially outweighed by the need for enlarged family accommodation for multigenerational living, the need to provide care for a dependent family member, engagement of the Public Sector Equality Duty and Human Rights Act Article 8, the absence of material harm to housing supply, and the likely non-material-change-of-use status of the proposal.
Framework references: 57
Plan policies cited: City Plan Policy 8, London Plan Policy H1, London Plan Policy H2
Judgments cited: London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames v SSETR [2000]; R on the application of RB Kensington and Chelsea v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2016] EWHC 1785; London Borough of Lambeth v Secretary of State for Levelling up, Housing and Communities [2024] EWHC 1391 (Admin); Richmond LBC v Secretary of State for Environment Transport and the Regions [1994] 2 PLR 115
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