Acer Cottage, 62 Thames Street, Walton on Thames, KT12 2PS

for a front porch of 1.54m x 1.34m in size and 2.2m from the public pavement, to create more space enabling easier wheelchair access into the property , including moving the front door to the porch entrance

Authority: Elmbridge Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder
Procedure: Written
Development: residential
Postcode: KT12 2PS

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal proposal would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Walton Riverside Conservation Area

What decided it

The porch constitutes a visually obtrusive and unsympathetic form of development that fails to preserve the character and appearance of the conservation area, and no alternative solutions were demonstrated to have been explored.

Plan policies cited: Policy CS17 of the Elmbridge Core Strategy 2011, Policy DM2 of the Elmbridge Local Plan Development Management Plan 2015, Policy DM12 of the Elmbridge Local Plan Development Management Plan 2015

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