®Planning appeal decision
The Drive, Mill Lane, Worthing, BN13 3DF
demolition of The Drive and redevelopment to provide four detached houses, together with access road, parking and landscaping (including felling of trees/replacement planting) without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref AWDM/0692/20, dated 18 May 2021
- Authority
- Worthing Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Heppell J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of varying the condition to allow for the retention of a double garage at Plot 3a on arboricultural interests and on the character and appearance of the host property and the area
What decided it
The Inspector's assessment that the additional encroachment of the double garage into the tree's root protection area, compared to the consented single garage, would likely affect only smaller non-anchoring roots and would not harm the tree's viability, combined with the finding that the double garage would not harm the character and appearance of the area.
Framework references: 135, 136
Plan policies cited: DM5, DM18
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