Appeal 3318015
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
8 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
to undertake a single storey 6m rear extension behind the rear main wall of the house. The new extension will be 2.9m high and 2.9m to the eaves.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Appeal Procedure
The site visit was undertaken by a representative of the Inspector whose recommendation is set out below and to which the Inspector has had regard before deciding the appeal.
Section 04
[name] and Main Issue
The wording of the description of development differs between the application form and decision notice, however both retain the same meaning. I have taken the description from the application form with the superfluous detail omitted.
The aforementioned legislative provisions grant a planning permission for an extension to a dwelling, within prescribed dimensions, subject to limitations. One of which being that it cannot extend beyond a wall forming a side elevation of the original dwellinghouse and have a width greater than half the width of the original dwellinghouse. This is the main issue of the appeal.
Section 05
Reasons for the Recommendation
The appeal building is a semi-detached property on a corner plot. From the plans, it is evident that the rear elevation on the original property is stepped, with a small ‘L’ shape, part of which has and therefore forms a side elevation of the dwelling. The development proposed is for a rear extension which would see part of the existing rear elevation, including the side return, demolished.
In this instance, the proposal would extend beyond the side return, which forms a side elevation, and would also extend the full width of the original dwellinghouse. It would not therefore be permitted by Class A. Even though the side return would be demolished through the building out of this proposal, the legislation is clear in that the limitations apply to the original dwellinghouse, which in this case, and in the absence of any compelling evidence to the contrary, is shown in the existing floor plans.
Section 06
Other Matters
The appellant has referred to two examples of similar developments having been granted at Nos 37 and [address]. I have not seen any additional detail on these schemes and am therefore unclear as to whether their circumstances are sufficiently similar to this appeal scheme. In any case, the remit of this decision is to assess the proposed development against explicit criteria of legislation and not to make a planning judgement which might balance harms, benefits or perceived precedents.
Section 07
Conclusion and Recommendation
For the reasons given above, the appeal scheme would not comply with the description of permitted development as per the relevant class of the aforementioned order. The result of this is to recommend that the appeal should be dismissed.
Section 08
Inspector’s Decision
I have considered all the submitted evidence and my representative’s report and on that basis the appeal is dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
The official casework attribution is grouped under a one-way keyed hash and shown only by its local identifier. Decision-letter dates and page references are extracted by fixed first-page rules and checked against that authoritative record.
Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 1895No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 4 October 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 9 August 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3318015
- Application reference
- 230279PALHE
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Ealing
- Planning authority code
- E09000009
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
- 3. Refused prior approval of permitted development rights
- Appeal reason
- Refusal
- Type detail
- Unknown
- 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
- 30 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
- 6 March 2023
- Valid date
- 11 March 2023
- Start date
- 22 June 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 24 February 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 4 October 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
- 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
- 39709
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:27
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21