Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed11 August 20266009316

26 Main Street, Empingham, Oakham, LE15 8PS

Planning appeal 6009316 at 26 Main Street, Empingham, Oakham, LE15 8PS (Rutland) was allowed on 11 August 2026 by Inspector Ryan Cowley, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development following the removal of condition No 2 would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Empingham Conservation Area.

Retrospective consent for the replacement of a retaining wall within the front garden

Authority
Rutland
Appeal type
Planning
Procedure
Written
Development
other
Inspector
Ryan Cowley
Postcode
LE15 8PS

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the development following the removal of condition No 2 would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Empingham Conservation Area

What decided it

The appeal wall's low position behind the driveway, screening by the front boundary wall and vehicles, and sympathetic stone-coloured finish mean it does not materially detract from the character and appearance of the Conservation Area.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CS19Policy CS22Policy SP15Policy SP20

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

8 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Rutland

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2026

  1. Quashed On Legal Grounds11 April 20233295642
    Hazel Hill Farm Wing Road, Morcott, Oakham, LE15 9DA
  2. Quashed On Legal Grounds30 January 20233286572
    52 Burley Road, Langham, Oakham, LE15 7HY
  3. Dismissed12 October 20266009205
    Land Rear of 25-27 Stapleford Road, Whissendine, LE15 7HF
  4. Allowed12 October 20266007557
    Land North of Wotton Close, Ketton, PE9 3DA
  5. Dismissed30 September 20266010934
    Land off Pickworh Road, Great Casterton, PE9 4AU

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.