Appeal 3280089
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
4 sections
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Section 01
Development description
proposed first floor rear extension.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
I consider that the main issue is the effect of the extension on the living conditions of the occupiers of the adjoining property, [address].
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal site is a semi-detached house that has an existing single storey rear extension that is elevated above the level of the rear garden. The proposal would add accommodation above providing additional first floor living accommodation. The adjoining house has not been extended to the rear.
Local Plan (2003)1 Policy H8 sets out criteria for extensions to dwellings in urban areas and, amongst other things, supports extensions that do not have an unacceptable effect on the amenities enjoyed by the occupants of adjacent buildings in terms of privacy and access to sunlight and daylight. The Council’s SPD2 also sets out guidance to ensure that extensions do not have an adverse impact on neighbours’ amenity.
The neighbouring house, No 89 lies to the north of the appeal site so it is likely that the existing extension causes some loss of light to the existing ground floor and outdoor amenity space. The existing extension has a flat roof but the proposal would add another floor with a pitched roof very close to the boundary with No 89. Whilst there is some question about whether the first floor windows to No 89 serve habitable rooms or not, the added height, close to the boundary would have an impact on No 89. From my observations it would seem that the upper floor windows of No 89 serve a bathroom and a landing and so the 1 Guildford Borough Local Plan 2003, [name] 2003. 2 [name] and Alterations Guildford Borough Council Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) 2018. impact on them would not be as significant than if they were bedrooms. This does not rule out my concern about the impact on the ground floor and the neighbours’ amenity space.
Given that the proposed extension would be for most of the width of the existing house and very close to the boundary, I consider it likely that any loss of light to the occupiers of the neighbouring house would be exacerbated. This would conflict with Policy H8 and the SPD. I also consider that the extension would appear quite overbearing when viewed from No 89.
I have considered all matters raised including the other polices referred to but none alter my conclusion. I conclude that the proposal would have a harmful effect on the living conditions of the occupiers on No 89, it would conflict with Policy H8 and the SPD and therefore the appeal fails.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 226No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 7 January 2022Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 13 December 2021 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3280089
- Application reference
- 21/P/01066
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Guildford Borough Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000209
Casework details
The casework, procedure, development and linking details supplied by the official record.
- Casework type
- Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development type
- Householder developments
- Appeal type reason
- 1. Refused planning permission
- Appeal reason
- Refusal
- Type detail
- Planning Appeals - Full
- Jurisdiction
- Transferred
- Link status
- Not Linked
Site and development
Published appeal-site measurements and planning designations, without the withheld precise location fields.
- Site area
- Not recorded
- Floor space
- 18 m²
- Number of residences
- 1
- Site in Green Belt
- No
- Agricultural holding
- No
- Affects setting of a listed building
- Not recorded
- Historic building grant made
- Not recorded
- Relates to a conservation area
- Not recorded
- Flooding is an issue
- Not recorded
- Site within an AONB
- Not recorded
- Site within an SSSI
- Not recorded
Decision and dates
The published outcome and every imported case date.
- Official decision
- Dismissed
- Decision category
- Dismissed
- Received date
- 2 August 2021
- Valid date
- 2 August 2021
- Start date
- 8 October 2021
- Planning authority decision date
- 6 July 2021
- Appeal decision date
- 7 January 2022
Case administration
Published recovery, call-in, costs and enforcement information for this case.
- Redetermined
- No
- Bespoke
- No
- Date recovered
- Not recorded
- Date not recovered or derecovered
- Not recorded
- Call-in date
- Not recorded
- Costs applied for
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds count
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds
- Not recorded
Source and catalogue history
When this record appeared in the rolling official release and when the catalogue stored it.
- Source
- Planning Inspectorate casework database
- Source data system
- Horizon
- Dataset status
- Current release
- Catalogue record ID
- 8544
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:25
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21