®Planning appeal decision
83 North Drive, Hounslow, TW3 1PT
the change of use from a Class C3(a) dwellinghouse to a Class C2 children’s home. The proposed use is for up to 4 children with carers working a 24 -hour shift basis
- Authority
- London Borough of Hounslow
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- community-institutional · Change of use
- Inspector
- Lancaster K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposed development on the supply of family housing, including whether the accommodation would meet an identified local need for specialist children's provision
- whether, in the absence of a completed legal agreement securing nomination arrangements, the development would provide appropriate safeguards to ensure its intended purpose and to avoid the importation of need from outside the local area
What decided it
The Council's evidence demonstrating no identified local need for the proposed development, combined with the absence of a legal agreement securing nomination arrangements to prevent importation of need from outside the Borough, meant the proposal conflicted with Policies SC1 and SC8 of the development plan with no material considerations of sufficient weight to outweigh this conflict.
Framework references: 48, 63
Plan policies cited: Policy SC1, Policy SC8, Policy IMP3
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.