Appeal 3295491
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
6 sections
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Section 01
Development description
single storey side extension.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is the effect on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal relates to a 2 storey hipped roof detached dwelling, attached to the side of which is a single storey garage with similarly styled hipped roof. The dwelling is located in a residential area comprising a mix of detached and semi detached properties on the corner of [address] and [address] and sits within a triangular plot. The dwelling follows the building line of properties on [address] and the rear elevation of the property aligns with the front of the neighbouring property on [address] as it is set back within its plot.
The position of the dwellings occupying the corner plots of [address] and [address] create an open and spacious character at the junction of the 2 roads and makes the dwellings highly visible within the street scene.
Revisions to the height and width of the extension may have reduced the scale of the proposal and set it back further from the front elevation. However, because of the location of the proposal within the plot and its visibility within the street scene it would still appear prominent despite the backdrop provided by neighbouring dwellings.
The roof type of the single storey extension would not match those on the existing property creating an unbalanced appearance. The setback of the extension would do little to mitigate the impact. The appellant has said that it would not be particularly discernible in the street scene but I disagree. There would be full views of the property in both [address] and [address] and so the incongruous appearance of the extension would be evident.
The appellant claims that the development could be built under permitted development rights. The evidence before me on this is inconclusive and it does not justify granting planning permission given the harm to the character and appearance of the area that it would create and the consequential conflict with
Section 05
the development plan.
The development would harm the character and appearance of the area and therefore would conflict with policy DC1 of the Staffordshire Moorlands Local Plan which amongst other things requires new development to be designed to respect the site and its surroundings and promote a positive sense of place and identity through its scale, height, layout, siting, landscaping, character and appearance. It would also conflict with the design criteria contained in the [name] for Development within the [name] and the [name].
Section 06
Conclusion
For the reasons identified, I conclude that the appeal should be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 3546No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 9 June 2022Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 22 May 2022 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3295491
- Application reference
- SMD/2021/0745
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000198
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
- 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
- 24 March 2022
- Valid date
- 24 March 2022
- Start date
- 13 April 2022
- Planning authority decision date
- 17 January 2022
- Appeal decision date
- 9 June 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
- No
- 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
- 16206
- 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