Appeal 3283955
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Official decision document
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5 sections
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Section 01
Development description
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Section 02
Decision
The appeal is allowed and planning permission is granted for creation of terracing to front garden with installation of decking and planters (retrospective) as per application reference 3/21/1176/HH dated 4 May 2021 subject to the standard condition requiring that the development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans; ISH-21May/2021 (Site/Block Plan – Proposed).
Section 03
[name]
The main issue is the impact of the proposal upon the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal property is a 1960’s/70’s end terrace house built as part of what appears to be a ‘Radburn’ type residential development. Typical of the nature of such housing developments many houses sit upon steep topography with largely unenclosed front gardens and parking courts to the rear. I consider that the location of number [site address] is therefore typical of this character with terraces standing high above the road with long, often stepped front access. Notably the appeal property is set back from the adjoining terrace of houses and as such appears more recessive into the streetscene when viewed from the entrance into [address] lower down the hill.
The proposal before me seeks retrospective planning permission for the landscaping, terracing and associated balustrading of the site in order to create off street car parking and to improve the useability of such a sloping garden through stepped terracing. The proposal has used generally high quality materials in the form of seasoned oak sleepers, colourful shrub planting and stainless steel and glass balustrades. Appeal Decision Appeal Ref: APP/J1915/D/21/3283955
[name] saw on my site visit that several properties have landscaped their gardens with small hedges, shrubs and other planting I consider that, given time, the proposal before me would similarly ‘naturalise’ and that its current ‘new’ appearance would suitably embed into its setting. Ultimately, although I consider that any change to such a steep garden would appear prominent here, at least until such time that the planting has matured, I consider that, due to the quality of materials, landscaping used and the generous set back behind the adjoining terrace, that the proposal does not cause sufficient harm to the character and appearance of the area that would lead me to dismiss this appeal.
In light of this I find the proposal has created a landscaping scheme of some quality and I consider that this is in consort with the intentions of Policies HOUS11 and DES4 of the East Herts District Plan 2018 which seek to achieve such quality in proposals within the district.
Section 05
Conclusion
For the reasons above, taking into account all other matters raised, I allow the appeal subject to the conditions outlined above.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 29 March 2022Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 21 February 2022 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3283955
- Application reference
- 3/21/1176/HH
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- East Hertfordshire District Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000242
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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Allowed
- Decision category
- Allowed
- Received date
- 29 September 2021
- Valid date
- 29 September 2021
- Start date
- 22 October 2021
- Planning authority decision date
- 30 July 2021
- Appeal decision date
- 29 March 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
- 13097
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:26
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21