Appeal 3318397
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
4 sections
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Section 01
Development description
raising of existing roof to create larger first floor and extension/reconfiguration to existing ground floor.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue in this case is the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal property is a detached dormer bungalow. It is located in a residential area, largely characterised by the presence of detached dormer bungalows and detached and semi-detached two storey dwellings.
The appeal property, like other dwellings along [address] in this location, is set back from the road behind a grass verge and pavement. The dwelling is set back from the pavement behind a further grass verge, a brick boundary wall and a front garden/parking area. It has a parking area to one side and gardens to the other side and rear. Some development appears to be underway at the appeal property.
There is a dormer bungalow to one side of the appeal property and a one and half storey dwelling to the other. Both are set well back from the road within comfortable garden plots.
On the opposite side of [address] to the appeal property, two storey semi-detached dwellings are set back from the road behind a very wide grass verge and a pavement, hedgerows and/or fencing/planting and front gardens/parking areas. Gaps between pairs of dwellings provide for glimpses through to trees, garages and garden areas to the rear.
The presence of the wide grass verges, gardens, gaps around dwellings/pairs of dwellings and trees, provides the area with a significant sense of spaciousness and greenery. Further, the generally low height and modest scale of the appeal property and its neighbours to either side, contributes to and appears in keeping with these qualities.
The proposed development would result in significant increases to the height, width and overall volume of the appeal property. The combined scale of the changes proposed would result in a form of development that would fail to appear subordinate to the host dwelling but would have the effect of overwhelming its original appearance.
The changes proposed would lead the appeal property to draw undue attention to itself as a large, bulky and prominent form of development that would to some considerable extent, appear “squeezed” onto its plot relative to neighbouring dwellings set in comfortable garden plots. This would be to the detriment of the spacious attributes of the area. 10.Further, the scale and bulk of the proposal would lead it to appear in stark contrast to and at odds with, the modest scale of neighbouring dwellings and I find that this would result in it drawing attention to itself as an incongruous form of development. 11.Taking all of the above into account, the proposal would harm the character and appearance of the area contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework and to Local Plan1 Policies C5 and N1, which together amongst other things, seek to protect local character.
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 601No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 4 July 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 12 June 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3318397
- Application reference
- 21/35143/HOU
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Stafford Borough Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000197
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
- 105 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
- 12 March 2023
- Valid date
- 19 March 2023
- Start date
- 6 April 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 9 February 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 4 July 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
- 35081
- 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