Appeal 3374016
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
6 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
single-storey rear extension with rooflights.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Preliminary Matters
In the interests of conciseness, I have omitted text from the proposal description that does not relate to the operative part of the development.
Section 04
Main Issue
The main issue is whether the proposed development satisfies the requirements of the Town & Country (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (the GPDO) with regard to being permitted development under the above Order.
Section 05
Reasons
The appeal property is an attached bungalow, which is sited at the end of a cul-de-sac. I observed on my site visit that the front elevation of the appeal property (which features the front door) broadly faces towards the cul-de-sac in which the appeal property is sited. The rear elevation and one side elevation are visible from adjacent roads.
The proposal seeks to provide a single storey rear extension. The Council’s reason for refusal relates solely to the proposal not complying with A.1 (j) (iii) of Class A, Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the GPDO.
[name].1(j) of Class A of the Order outlines that development is not permitted by Class A if, among other things, the enlarged part of the dwellinghouse would extend beyond a wall forming a side elevation of the original dwellinghouse and would have a width greater than half the width of the original dwellinghouse.
The Permitted Development Rights for Householders: Technical Guidance states that ‘a wall forming a side elevation of a house will be any wall that cannot be identified as being a front wall or a rear wall’. In this case, the appeal property has a small rear projection. While one side of the rear projection is flush with the side of the appeal property that faces [address], the dwelling has another small side elevation, that faces towards the adjoining property.
There is no compelling evidence before me that the existing rear projection was not part of the original dwelling. In this case, the proposal would extend beyond a wall forming a side elevation of the original dwelling and would have a width greater than half the width of the original dwelling. Consequently, the proposed extension is not permitted under the above Order.
Section 06
Conclusion
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 5777No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 17 December 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 15 December 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3374016
- Application reference
- NOT/2025/1126
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Ashford Borough Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000105
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
- 3. Refused prior approval of permitted development rights
- 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
- 48 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
- 1 October 2025
- Valid date
- 1 October 2025
- Start date
- 15 October 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 15 July 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 17 December 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
- 81760
- 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