Appeal 3308538
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 sections
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Section 01
Development description
described as a rear loft extension including hip to gable extension and rooflights in front slope of roof.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
I consider the main issue to be the effect of the proposed development on the architectural integrity of the host property and thereby the character and appearance of the local area.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal property, [site address] , is a two-storey semi-detached dwelling located in an area characterised by a mixed residential development. Many of the properties have been extended and altered over time. However, with only a couple of notable exceptions the road is still characterised by the hipped roof form of the original semi-detached pairs of dwelling.
Number 44 has previously been extended to the side, nevertheless this pair of houses retain their hipped roofs and therefore a significant degree of their original symmetry.
The appellant proposes a hip to gable roof extension and the construction of a large rear box dormer. The new second floor level accommodation, thereby created, would in part be lit by five new roof lights inserted in the front roof slope.
The proposed hip to gable addition would destroy the symmetry of the semi-detached pair and appear as a bulky and incongruous addition to both the dwelling and the semi-detached pair.
The box dormer proposed to the rear roof slope would extend from the new flank wall right across the full width of rear roof slope. It would extend from just above the eaves line to the ridge of the roof. Due to the proposed dormer’s size, three-dimensional form, massing and overall bland design it would appear as a large and inappropriate alien addition her.
The combination of the hip to gable extension and the large box dormer would result in new development subsuming the host property. Accordingly, the development as designed would cause significant harm to both the architectural integrity of the host property, the semi-detached pair and thereby the character and appearance of the wider area.
To allow the development would run contrary to the objectives of Polices D3 and D4 of the London Plan ([name] 2021) and Policies SP4 and DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan 2018 (Adopted 27 February 2018). All as they relate to, along with other things the quality of development and the need for it to respect and enhance the character of the area.
Section 05
Conclusions
For the reasons given above and having regard to all other matters raised, 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 1184No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 2 February 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 5 January 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3308538
- Application reference
- 22/02051/HSE
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Croydon
- Planning authority code
- E09000008
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
- Dismissed
- Decision category
- Dismissed
- Received date
- 7 October 2022
- Valid date
- 7 October 2022
- Start date
- 30 November 2022
- Planning authority decision date
- 2 August 2022
- Appeal decision date
- 2 February 2023
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
- 27537
- 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