®Planning appeal decision
15 Durham Street, Gosport, Hants, PO12 3JE
change of use from dwellinghouse (Class C3) to a nine-bedroom nine- person House in Multiple Occupation with associated car parking (Sui Generis)
- Authority
- Gosport Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Reeves K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed parking provision and layout would result in unacceptable impacts on highway safety or residential amenity
- whether the development would achieve nutrient neutrality, or otherwise secure appropriate mitigation for increased nutrient discharge affecting European designated sites
- whether adequate mitigation is secured to address recreational disturbance impacts on the Solent Special Protection Areas (SPAs)
What decided it
The realistic fallback position of a six-person HMO with minimal parking, combined with the demonstrated ability to accommodate three parking spaces and the availability of established mitigation mechanisms for nutrient loading and recreational disturbance, meant the proposal would not result in unacceptable impacts on highway safety, residential amenity or European designated sites.
Plan policies cited: Policy LP10, Policy LP23, Policy LP42, Policy LP44
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.