Appeal 3342094
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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 ‘change of roof from hipped to gabled with two skylights’.
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 main issue is the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 05
Reasons for the Recommendation
The appeal site is a semi-detached property within a residential area, which is characterised by pairs of semi-detached dwellings of similar appearance that are fairly evenly spaced and set back from the roadside. Most of the nearby semi-detached properties have hipped ends or side extensions of a smaller height and this pattern is replicated along the road. Together, these elements combine to bring a pleasant consistency to the street scene which contributes positively to the character and appearance of the area.
The proposed gable end would be the same ridge height as the existing dwelling. It would not be subordinate and, consequently, would create a substantial block to the frontage of the dwelling that would be inconsistent with and an unacceptable foil to the other dwellings on [address]. Thereby causing harm to the character and appearance of the area.
The proposed development would therefore conflict with Policies LP26 and LP30 of the Redbridge Local Plan 2018 which are concerned with maintaining the appearance of the street scene and local character amongst other things. As well as the Redbridge Housing Design Supplementary Planning Document 2019 which seeks to ensure that any roof alterations are subordinate in size and that hip to gable end roof alterations retain any prevailing pattern of development in the area or the symmetry of a pair of semi-detached properties.
Section 06
Conclusion and Recommendation
For the reasons given above, the appeal scheme would conflict with the development plan and there are no sufficiently weighty material considerations to indicate a decision other than in accordance therewith. 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 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
- 11 September 2024Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 29 August 2024 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3342094
- Application reference
- 0088/24
- 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
- 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
- 10 m²
- Number of residences
- 1
- 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
- 7 April 2024
- Valid date
- 7 April 2024
- Start date
- 29 July 2024
- Planning authority decision date
- 21 March 2024
- Appeal decision date
- 11 September 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
- No
- 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
- 56913
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:28
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21