Appeal 3331388
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
4 sections
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Section 01
Development description
a retrospective application for cladding.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is the effect of the development on the character and appearance of the host dwelling and of the street scene. In response to a comment in the grounds of appeal, I am satisfied that the works undertaken do in fact constitute ‘development’ as defined under current planning legislation and accordingly that planning permission is required.
Section 04
Reasons
The officer’s report correctly refers to the slightly elevated siting of the dwelling which combined with its corner position results in the building having two principal elevations, one to [address] and one to [address]. I also note that the area is a 1970s estate development which accounts for a fairly limited range of dwelling designs and external materials, the latter being ‘a mixture of artificial stone, brown, red and buff brick as well as red and grey tile hanging’. Before the cladding was applied the building was finished in artificial stone, which from the Google imagery supplied appears to confirm was the same as that of the adjoining neighbour, [address].
In a setting of a single street scene of individual dwellings set back from the road and not forming part of an estate, the appearance of a dwelling with this type and colour of cladding may well be acceptable, notwithstanding the Council’s criticism of the appeal bungalow having a ‘heavy, box like appearance’.
However, in this case there is a combination of constraints, comprising an estate development, an open plan layout, a prominent position, and materials that are not in keeping with the immediate surroundings (particularly when Appeal Decision Ref. APP/P2114/D/23/3331388 applied to all the external walls visible from the public realm). In the light of these factors, the appeal property draws the eye as an incongruous element within the street scene. Accordingly it is reasonable for the Council to conclude that this is to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area.
I have noted that the cladding was applied as part of measures to improve the energy efficiency of the building and I have taken this into account. I am also aware that cladding of a similar appearance forms part of the external materials of other dwellings on the estate.
Nonetheless, in this case I consider that the full cladding of all the walls seen from [address] and [address] is in harmful conflict with Policy DM2 of the Island Plan Core Strategy 2012 and with Government policy in Section 12: ‘[name] and [name] of the National Planning Policy Framework (as revised December 2023).
For these reasons and having had regard to all other matters raised, the appeal fails.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 204No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted site visit dates
- 14 March 2024 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3331388
- Application reference
- 23/00963/HOU
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Isle of Wight Council
- Planning authority code
- E06000046
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
- 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
- 16 October 2023
- Valid date
- 16 October 2023
- Start date
- 11 January 2024
- Planning authority decision date
- 28 July 2023
- Appeal decision date
- 25 March 2024
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
- 48638
- 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