Appeal 3373529
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
4 sections
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Section 01
Development description
two storey side extension.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main issue
I consider that the main issue in this case is its effect on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
[site address] is a two storey semi-detached house located on a corner site in the established residential area of Dines Green. This is characterised by a fairly formal pattern of development with similar two storey semi-detached houses with hipped roofs and terraced housing along regular building lines. The properties are set back from the road and from the corners at road junctions thus giving the area as a whole a spacious appearance.
Policies relevant in this case include SWDP21 of the South Worcestershire Development Plan 2016 (the development plan) which, among other things, requires development to be of high quality design, to complement the character of the area and to be of a scale, height and massing appropriate to the setting of the site.
The Council’s Supplementary Planning Document [name] offers advice on, among other things, detailed matters of the design of residential extensions.
I consider that the proposed two storey extension would result in an excessively large and bulky addition to the existing house by virtue of its width and depth. The front elevation of the existing house facing the northeast/southwest part of [address] is approximately 6.7m wide and, at approximately 5.4m wide, the proposal would appear almost as wide again as the existing. Although it would be set down from the main ridge height and back slightly from the front elevation, it would project beyond the rear elevation and be clearly visible as a prominent and disproportionate mass out of keeping with the strong building line along the northwest/southeast part of [address].
No. 22 is located in a prominent position on a corner. The junctions and bends of the roads in the estate have an open spacious appearance and I consider that the proposal would have a significant adverse impact on this characteristic feature of the area.
I conclude that the proposal would harm the character and appearance of the house itself and the wider street scene, contrary to development plan policy SWDP21 and the advice in the SPD.
For the reasons given above, the appeal is dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 764No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 19 November 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 12 November 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3373529
- Application reference
- 25/00620/HP
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Worcester City Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000237
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
- 43 m²
- 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
- 22 September 2025
- Valid date
- 29 September 2025
- Start date
- 29 September 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 29 August 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 19 November 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
- 79993
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:25
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:29
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:25
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21