Appeal 3327979
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
7 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
described as a proposed extension to existing dropped kerb, creating a new vehicular crossover and 1 No car parking space at [site address] [postcode] .
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
Main Issue
The effect of the proposal on highway safety.
Section 05
Reasons for the Recommendation
The appeal property is set back from [address] by a small front garden. During my site visit this area of [address] appeared relatively busy, with the presence of a pedestrian crossing and traffic island located within the section of highway adjoining the appeal site having little impact on vehicle speeds. I recognise these observations represent a snapshot in time. The proposal would facilitate the use of part of the front garden as a parking space, with vehicular access adjoining the public footway and pedestrian crossing.
The configuration of the proposal would necessitate vehicles to reverse in or out of the site, limiting the driver’s visibility in so doing. When combined with the requirement of these vehicles to pass over the footway and pedestrian crossing, the proposal would be hazardous to the safety of pedestrians. Furthermore, reversing into the site would lead to vehicles slowing and stopping in the highway, unacceptably impeding the free flow of traffic.
Whilst vehicle speeds and movements to and from the appeal site via the proposed access would likely be commensurate with its residential nature, the above circumstances would still increase the likelihood of conflict with pedestrians and motorists to an unacceptable degree. Such that it would conflict with Policy LP22 of the Redbridge Local Plan 2015 – 2030 (2018) and Policies T2 and T4 of The London Plan (2021) which when read together, broadly require new developments, amongst other things, to not increase road danger.
Section 06
Conclusion and Recommendation
For the reasons given above, the appeal scheme would conflict with the development plan and there are no material considerations worthy of sufficient weight which would indicate to the contrary. I therefore recommend that the appeal should be dismissed.
Section 07
Inspector’s Decision
I have considered all the submitted evidence and my representative’s recommendation 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
- 18 December 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 22 November 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3327979
- Application reference
- 0848/23
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Redbridge
- Planning authority code
- E09000026
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
- 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
- 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
- 17 August 2023
- Valid date
- 23 August 2023
- Start date
- 9 November 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 2 June 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 18 December 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
- 43874
- 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