Appeal 3374328
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
5 sections
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Section 01
Development description
construction of open-sided car port.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The effect of the open-sided car port on the character and appearance of the area.
Section 04
Reasons
Number 10 is a semi-detached house at the end of a section of ribbon development running evenly on both sides of [address]. Farmland separates this housing from nearby [site address] village. The car port for which permission is sought is already in place. It occupies the front parking area immediately in front of the house, served by an adjacent site entrance.
Although at one end of the row of dwellings along this side of the road, with open countryside beyond, this semi-detached house is an integral part of this well-defined group. As such, it is not within such a fringe location as to reduce the car port’s visual impact within this housing enclave. The double car port is at a prominent entrance point to this clearly defined section of ribbon development. Although the dwellings are all set back quite comfortably from the road, the car port occupies a substantial part of the front garden to No 10, which is far too small for a structure of this size to be effectively lost to view. On the contrary, where placed it comprises a visually dominant and incompatible feature. The fact the front garden physically accommodates the structure seems immaterial. That it occupies most of the space between the roadside garden wall and the front elevation the house means it is quite evidently a cramped physical and visual presence, contrary to the appellant’s assertion otherwise.
The open nature of the car port, and the fact that cars would be seen parked in this location regardless of its presence, does not overcome the harmful effect of such a prominent and incongruous feature. Undoubtedly, a more solid building might have caused greater harm, but this provides no reasonable mitigation for the adverse impacts found.
The timber framework supporting a flat roof comprises a discordant and unsympathetic feature in the street scene, detracting from the quite open and verdant setting of this section of housing, which otherwise observes a consistent building line along both sides of the road. Consequently, the proposal conflicts with Policy DM23 of the Chelmsford Local Plan, insofar as this requires development to be compatible with its surroundings having regard to scale, siting and form. The conflict with this policy attracts significant weight due to its consistency with the National Planning Policy Framework, and its objectives for achieving well-designed places and resisting development failing in this regard.
Section 05
Conclusion
For the reasons given, I conclude that the appeal does not succeed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 997No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 21 November 2025Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 11 November 2025 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3374328
- Application reference
- 25/01032/FUL
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Chelmsford Borough Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000070
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
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
- 7 October 2025
- Valid date
- 7 October 2025
- Start date
- 14 October 2025
- Planning authority decision date
- 9 September 2025
- Appeal decision date
- 21 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
- 80201
- 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