Appeal 3294473
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
6 sections
Read the development description and the Inspector’s text from the official decision PDF in source order. Source headings are retained where available. Personal and contact details are removed by an automated privacy filter; this is source material, not Rules for You analysis.
Section 01
Development description
new boundary treatments including new automatic bi-folding gates to principal elevation. Existing garage doors replaced with patio doors.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The Council’s concerns relate solely to the automatic gates and no objections are raised to the other elements of the proposal. There is no reason for me to arrive at a different view on the acceptability of the other parts of the scheme. Accordingly, my assessment relates primarily to the automatic gates, with the main issue being their effect on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal property lies in a line of similar houses that all have the same style black metal rail fencing to the front and open-fronted driveways to the side. The uniformity of the properties in the row creates an attractive regularity and is a fundamental characteristic of the street.
The automatic gates would be positioned in a prominent location on the front boundary. Also, they would be adjacent to and markedly higher than the railings to the front of the appeal property and its neighbour. Moreover, the gates would enclose the side driveway, at odds with the other open driveways in the row. Consequently, the gates would stand out as highly visible and incongruous structures that would undermine the uniformity of the street scene. The ball-top features of the proposed gates would match the style of the railings but they would not overcome the visual incompatibility caused by the contrasting heights and the enclosure of the driveway.
The referred to gates at [address] are seen in a different context to the appeal property and where there is less regularity in the street scene. As such, these do not justify the proposed gates and do not set a precedent that I am bound to follow in the determination of this appeal.
The acceptability of the other elements of the development fails to override or address the identified detriment that would be caused by the automatic gates. As such, I conclude the development as a whole would cause harm to the character and appearance of the area. Therefore, it would not accord with policy BE1 of the Warwick District Local Plan 2017. Amongst other things, this looks to ensure development respects local architectural distinctiveness.
Section 05
Other Matters
The appellant refers to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) and the permitted development rights (PDRs) that it grants. However, there is no evidence before me that demonstrates the proposed gates or similar could be erected under PDRs. As such, I am unconvinced that PDRs provide a fallback position that can be afforded weight in my assessment of this appeal.
Section 06
Conclusion
For the above reasons, the proposal would not accord with the development plan policies when read as a whole. Other factors are of insufficient weight to justify making a decision other than in accordance with the development plan. Therefore, I conclude the appeal should be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 113No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 19 May 2022Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 17 May 2022 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3294473
- Application reference
- W/21/1966
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Warwick District Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000222
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
- 0 m²
- Number of residences
- 0
- 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
- 8 March 2022
- Valid date
- 8 March 2022
- Start date
- 24 March 2022
- Planning authority decision date
- 16 December 2021
- Appeal decision date
- 19 May 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
- 15446
- 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