25 Basildon Avenue, Ilford, IG5 0QE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• whether the development is an appropriate type and form of housing for the area
• the effect of the development on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers, having regard to noise and disturbance

What decided it

The adverse impacts of the development in terms of loss of larger family-sized housing and material harm to neighbouring living conditions significantly and demonstrably outweigh the limited benefits of the scheme, even accounting for the Council's housing delivery shortfall.

The limited benefits of more intensive use of land and contribution to housing mix were substantially outweighed by the harm to the provision of larger family-sized dwellings and the material harm to neighbouring occupiers' living conditions through noise and disturbance; the presumption in favour of sustainable development does not apply.