Appeal 3365520
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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
a single storey front extension.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is the effect of the proposal on the living conditions of the occupants of number [address] (number 10), with regard to outlook and natural light.
Section 04
Reasons
The appeal property is a two-storey semi-detached dwelling, which is situated in closely knit residential area. The front elevation of the dwelling is staggered with part of a garage and an entrance hall projecting in front of part of the main wall of the property.
The proposal is to construct a single storey, flat-roofed kitchen extension that would infill the space between the side of the existing entrance hall and the side boundary with number 10. The side wall of the proposed extension would project out in front of the kitchen window of number 10.
I acknowledge that the proposal would enhance the living conditions of the appellant, by providing an enlarged kitchen. I have also considered the fact that the occupants of number 10 have not objected to the proposal. However, whilst the proposal would be generally acceptable in terms of its external appearance, the position of the extension adjacent to the boundary, together with its height and length, would have an unacceptably overbearing impact on the outlook from the kitchen window of number 10. The extension would also have an overshadowing effect on number 10, due to its position on the south western side of the neighbouring dwelling.
Policy DC1 of the adopted Staffordshire Moorlands Local Plan relates to the design of new development and, amongst other things, it seeks to ensure that proposals protect amenity, including outlook and sunlight/daylight. This policy is consistent with paragraph 135 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2024, which also seeks to create places with a high standard of amenity. I consider that the appeal proposal conflicts with these provisions.
Section 05
Conclusion
For the reasons given above, it is concluded that the appeal be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 203No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 7 August 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 16 July 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3365520
- Application reference
- SMD/2025/0050
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000198
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
- 12 May 2025
- Valid date
- 12 May 2025
- Start date
- 23 May 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 15 April 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 7 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
- 74366
- 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