®Planning appeal decision
245 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, S11 8JE
Planning appeal 3373824 at 245 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, S11 8JE (Sheffield City Council) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 6 May 2026 by Inspector Kean G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether a car park use is acceptable in this location having regard to local and national planning policies that promote sustainable transport.
without planning permission, the change of use of the Land for the use as a car park for use by motor vehicles at the site of 245 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, S11 8JE
- Authority
- Sheffield City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Major general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Kean G
- Postcode
- S11 8JE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether a car park use is acceptable in this location having regard to local and national planning policies that promote sustainable transport
- the effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area including highway safety
- if the development is otherwise acceptable in planning terms whether, having regard to the alternative housing scheme, the unauthorised use should be refused as conflicting with local or national planning policy or other material considerations
What decided it
The existence of an extant planning permission for housing that has been recently varied, approved and commenced, combined with the Council's inability to demonstrate five-year housing land supply, created exceptional circumstances where refusal of the car park use would materially assist in progressing the alternative scheme.
the benefits of delivering housing on a brownfield site in a context of insufficient housing land supply outweighed the continuation of the car park use, which would delay and disincentivise redevelopment
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- UDP Policy IB6UDP Policy IB9UDP Policy BE9CS Policy CS53CS Policy CS66CS Policy CS74Draft Policy AS1Draft Policy SWS03
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 123Paragraph 124Paragraph 125
- Judgments
- Stringer v MHLG [1970] 1 WLR 1281; R. (On the application of Mount Cook and Ltd) v Westminster CC [2003] EWCA Civ 1346; [2004] 2 P. & C.R. 22
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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