Appeal 3364699
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 sections
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Section 01
Development description
replacement windows, front door and French doors to the rear.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is allowed and the planning permission [name]/2025/0048 for replacement windows, front door and French doors to the rear at [site address] , Mawsley, [postcode] granted on 27 March 2025 by North Northamptonshire Council, is varied by deleting condition 3 and substituting it for the following
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is whether the part of the condition is reasonable and necessary in relation to materials chosen for the Village Street.
Section 04
Background
The appeal dwelling is in an area subject to an Article 4 direction, which removed a range of permitted development rights, including alteration and replacement of windows and doors in this part of Mawsley. Planning permission has been granted at this property for new windows, front doors and French doors to the rear of the appeal property, subject to certain conditions encompassing the disputed one above. The appellant now wants to remove that part of Condition 3 that requires that the windows are installed with concealed trickle vents only.
Section 05
Reasons
The appeal property is a 2-storey dwelling set within a residential area designated as the ‘Village Street’, which contains a mix of 2 and 3 storey buildings in comparable town house design form. Albeit most of these properties have similar windows, I have observed windows with trickle vents on the second floors of the adjacent Nos 16 and 18, which with their slight forward projection on the window rails, having limited visual effect. The proposed trickle vents on the window rails of the appeal building, beneath the present projecting window heads, would mirror those of these neighbouring properties and not be visually intrusive.
The Council’s Officer’s Report mentions that the Article 4 Direction was designated on 18 July 2001 and the justification included a statement that ‘materials selected for the Village Street include the use of sympathetic man-made materials’. Hence, the proposal is not in conflict with Policies 8 of the [name] or Policies RS1 and MAW1 of the Site-Specific Part 2 Local Plan for Kettering Area. Together these Policies seek to create a distinctive local character by responding to the site’s immediate and wider context and local character to create new streets, spaces and buildings, which draw on the best of that local character without stifling innovation and, emphasise that development must be designed to reflect the distinct character of the village
I therefore conclude that the part of the condition being contested is unreasonable and unnecessary in relation to the elected materials for this area and the appeal should be allowed with a modified Condition 3 omitting reference to concealed trickle vents.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 42627No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 14 August 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 3 July 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3364699
- Application reference
- NK/2025/0048
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Planning authority code
- Not recorded
Casework details
The casework, procedure, development and linking details supplied by the official record.
- Casework type
- Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development type
- Householder developments
- Appeal type reason
- 4. Grant planning permission for the development subject to conditions to which you object
- Appeal reason
- Appeal Against Conditions
- 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
- Allowed
- Decision category
- Allowed
- Received date
- 27 April 2025
- Valid date
- 30 April 2025
- Start date
- 30 April 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 27 March 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 14 August 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
- 74738
- 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