Appeal 3351849
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 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
retention of raised timber decking.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Procedural Matters
The description of the proposal contains wording that is not a description of development. The description of the proposal should therefore read ‘raised timber decking’.
Section 04
Reasons
Raised timber decking was in place at the time of my site visit. The appeal relates to that timber decking and further proposes the introduction of screen fencing and a native planting screen.
However, the plans are inconsistent in their approach to the position of a rear outhouse on the boundary of the site relative to the rear elevation of the appeal property. The plans are also inconsistent with regard to the proposed depth of the screen fencing relative to the position of the rear elevation of the appeal property. This raises serious doubt as to whether what is shown on the plans could be implemented at the site.
Section 05
Conclusion
The inconsistencies within the plans raise doubt as to whether what is shown could be implemented at the site. Further, I am not therefore able to assess the effect of the proposal on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers with regard to privacy, nor could I reasonably draw conclusions against the policies of the Northumberland Local Plan (2022). The appeal should therefore be dismissed. [planning inspector] INSPECTOR
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 6752No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 14 January 2024Differs from the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 19 December 2024 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3351849
- Application reference
- 24/01279/FUL
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Northumberland County Council
- Planning authority code
- E06000057
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
- 13 September 2024
- Valid date
- 17 September 2024
- Start date
- 24 September 2024
- Planning authority decision date
- 24 June 2024
- Appeal decision date
- 14 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
- 62862
- 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