®Planning appeal decision
19 Egerton Street, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 7LB
Planning appeal 3369989 at 19 Egerton Street, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 7LB (Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 21 November 2025 by Inspector Spataru A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area.
a change of use from hairdressers and part of garage services use to 5 no. self-contained apartments together with external staircase to side elevation, erection of boundary wall, and associated alterations (retrospective)
- Authority
- Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Spataru A
- Postcode
- BL4 7LB
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether the development provides adequate living conditions for the occupiers of the proposed flats with particular regard to noise and air pollution, internal floorspace, internal headroom, private and communal amenity space, light and outlook
What decided it
The harm to character and appearance and to living conditions significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefits of providing five additional flats, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply despite the Council's undersupply of housing land.
The harm to character and appearance and to living conditions significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited social and economic benefits of the development, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply despite the Council's housing land supply shortfall of 3.7 years.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy JP-P1 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document for Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan 2022 to 2039 adopted 2024Policy CG4 of the Bolton's Core Strategy Development Plan Document 2011Policy JP-S5 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan DocumentPolicy JP-H3 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 135Paragraph 200Paragraph 11
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.
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