Appeal 3328506
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
3 sections
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Section 01
Development description
construction of hardstanding drive, accessed via [address] by removing part of garden wall.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Reasons
It is proposed to create a new vehicular access onto the B6150 [address] from the appellant’s front garden. The property is at the corner of [address] and [address] and is at the end of a row of terraced properties. [address] is a busy classified road with double yellow lines around the corners of the junction and a single yellow line on the opposite side of the road. On-street parking is available on both roads.
In my judgement, a vehicle crossover onto a classified road at the junction of [address] and [address], where visibility is already restricted by vehicles parked on both adjacent roads, would bring vehicles and pedestrians into conflict. Such conflict would be exacerbated by vehicles reversing off the appeal frontage. There is no technical evidence to demonstrate that a turning circle could be achieved to enable vehicles to enter and exit in forward gear.
This view is supported by the Highways Authority which objects to the proposal on highway safety grounds. Furthermore, the appellant also appears to acknowledge these concerns in his comment that vehicles reversing from the frontages of 178-184 (odd) are ‘causing an issue for traffic on [address]’.
Vehicles are parked on some nearby paved frontages. However, they do not have a dropped kerb access to the road. The Council confirms that planning permission for such works would be unlikely to be forthcoming. This is supported by a history of refusals of planning permission for other vehicular crossings on [address]. The degree of driver visibility available due to the corner, end of terrace location of the appeal property does not outweigh the identified safety concerns.
I conclude that the creation of a new vehicular access to [address] would introduce traffic movements to and from the public highway at a point close to a junction, thereby leading to danger and inconvenience to other highway users. Furthermore, there would be insufficient space within the site to enable the safe manoeuvring of vehicles, resulting in reversing onto or off a classified road, which would be detrimental to highway safety. The proposal is therefore contrary to the provisions of Chesterfield Borough Local Plan Policies CLP20 and CLP22 which, in summary and of relevance to this appeal, require developments to provide adequate and safe vehicle access and parking.
For the foregoing reasons, the appeal is dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 322No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted site visit dates
- 28 October 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3328506
- Application reference
- CHE/23/00167/FUL
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Chesterfield Borough Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000034
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
- Not recorded
- 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
- 27 August 2023
- Valid date
- 27 August 2023
- Start date
- 29 September 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 6 June 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 13 November 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
- 41886
- 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