Appeal 3345223
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
7 sections
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Section 01
Development description
4m rear extension with pitched roof, redland 49 tiles to match existing, 2 velux windows, 4m bifold door to rear elevation.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Preliminary Matters
Under Article 3 (1) and Schedule 2 Part 1, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (the GPDO), planning permission is granted for the enlargement of a dwellinghouse subject to limitations and conditions.
Section 04
Main Issue
The main issue is whether the proposed development would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A of GPDO.
Section 05
Reasons
Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A of the GPDO allows for the enlargement of a dwellinghouse subject to limitations and conditions. [name].1(j) states that the development is not permitted by Class A if the enlarged part of the dwellinghouse would extend beyond a wall forming a side elevation of the original dwellinghouse and would (i) exceed 4 metres in height, (ii) have more than a single storey, or (iii) have a width greater than half the width of the original dwellinghouse.
The appeal property is a two-storey semi-detached dwelling with a single storey outshot projecting from its rear elevation. In my site visit I observed that many other neighbouring properties within [address] also display this design feature and I note that the [name] has not identified any relevant planning history for this property. For these reasons, it is highly likely that the outshot is an original part of the dwellinghouse.
The Permitted Development Rights for Householders - Technical Guidance (2019) explains that a wall forming a side elevation of a house is any wall which cannot be identified as a front wall or rear wall. Because of the rear outshot, the proposal would extend beyond a wall forming a side elevation of the original dwellinghouse. As the proposal would extend across the full width of the rear elevation, it would have a width greater than half the width of the original dwellinghouse.
On the basis of the evidence before me, the proposal that would not accord with criterion A.1(j) of Part 1 of Class A. Consequently, the proposed development would not be permitted development under Article 3(1) and Schedule 2, Part 1, Class A of the GPDO.
Section 06
Other Matters
Reference is made to other extensions built in the surrounding area. However, my determination rests on the criteria set out in the GPDO, so these other examples have no bearing on my decision.
Section 07
Conclusion
For the reasons given above the appeal should be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 5985No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 10 January 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 19 November 2024 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3345223
- Application reference
- BH2024/00906
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- Planning authority code
- E06000043
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
- 3. Refused prior approval of permitted development rights
- 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
- 28 May 2024
- Valid date
- 28 May 2024
- Start date
- 18 July 2024
- Planning authority decision date
- 22 May 2024
- Appeal decision date
- 10 January 2025
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
- 62685
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:25
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:28
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:25
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21