Appeal 3294571
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 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
the construction of a timber car port for 2 cars.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
[address] is a residential street characterised by 2 storey detached houses set within modest gardens. In general, the dwellings are set back from the road behind maturely landscaped frontages often providing off road parking. There are several examples of single storey garages or outbuildings located within these frontages and these are predominantly screened by the mature planting.
The appeal site has recently had its frontage landscaped and the front boundary replanted. This makes the site appear visually stark, and more open than neighbouring frontages, at odds to the general character of this part of [address]. Nevertheless, as the planting matures, this will soften the frontage and provide more cohesion with its surroundings.
The proposed car port would be located to one side of the frontage area, set back from the road access. I am satisfied the frontage planting, as it matures, would suitably screen the proposal from the road, when viewed from the front or when approached from a westerly direction.
However, the appeal property has a side garden which stretches to the road behind the proposed location of the car port. The frontage planting does not appear to carry on along this part of the boundary, and so the proposal would be clearly visible across it when approaching the site from the east.
As there is nothing before me which would secure planting along that part of the boundary, I am not satisfied that the proposal would be suitably screened from the road. It would therefore be obvious within the street scene, at odds to the verdant appearance of [address], and uncharacteristically visibly in comparison to other examples along the road.
Consequently, the proposed development would have a harmful impact on the character and appearance of the area. This would be contrary to Policy CSP18 of the Tandridge District Core Strategy, Policy DP7 of the Tandridge Local Plan Part 2: [name], and paragraph 130 of the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework), insofar as the seek a high standard of design that reflects and respects its setting.
Section 05
Conclusion
For the reason given above the appeal scheme would conflict with the development plan when read as a whole and there are no sufficiently weighted material considerations, including the Framework, that would indicate a decision otherwise. The appeal is, therefore, dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 2199No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 25 November 2022Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 2 November 2022 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3294571
- Application reference
- 2021/2072
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Tandridge District Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000215
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
- 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
- 10 March 2022
- Valid date
- 3 April 2022
- Start date
- 3 August 2022
- Planning authority decision date
- 24 January 2022
- Appeal decision date
- 25 November 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
- 24088
- 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