Appeal 3360172
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
6 sections
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Section 01
Development description
construction of single storey extension at front of house.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Procedural Matter
The Council changed the description of development from that stated on the application form in the interests of clarity. I consider an amended version of that description accurately describes the appeal scheme and accordingly I have adopted an amended description in the heading above.
At the time of my site visit, I saw that the development was in situ. The application has been submitted retrospectively; I have dealt with the appeal on this basis.
Section 04
[name]
The main issue in this appeal is the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area and the host property itself.
Section 05
Reasons
The site is within a predominantly residential area characterised by two-storey properties which vary in design. Notwithstanding this semi-detached properties in the area, such as the appeal site, share common features and have a form of symmetry forming a harmonious built form.
The development does not complement the existing architecture of the property and unbalances the symmetry of the semi-detached properties. The glazed box design projecting from the lean-to addition create a jarring feature incongruous to the existing property and area in general.
The appellant has drawn my attention to the approval 1 of an addition to the property and highlights that the lean-to structure element of the appeal proposal is similar. 1 Ref: 20230838 Whilst this maybe the case I have not been provided with substantive details to confirm this. Nevertheless, the proposal before me would not be comparable given the glazed porch element, I have therefore reached my conclusion based on the individual merit of the appeal proposal before me.
I conclude that the proposed development would harm the character and appearance of the area and the host property itself. There is conflict with Policy CDMP3 of the Leicester City local development framework, [name] (2014) which seeks amongst other things to ensure development is of high quality well designed which responds positively to the character and context of an area.
There is also conflict with the National Planning Policy Framework (2024) which seeks to ensure developments are of good design appropriate and sympathetic to their surroundings.
Section 06
Conclusion
For the above reasons I conclude that this appeal should be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 126No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 27 March 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 23 March 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3360172
- Application reference
- 20241289
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Leicester City Council
- Planning authority code
- E06000016
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
- 5 m²
- Number of residences
- 0
- Site in Green Belt
- No
- Agricultural holding
- No
- 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
- 5 February 2025
- Valid date
- 5 February 2025
- Start date
- 13 February 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 7 January 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 27 March 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
- 67014
- 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