Appeal 6006602
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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
the erection of a double-storey side and rear extension following the demolition of the existing ground floor side extension.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Main Issue
The main issue is the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the host building and the street scene of [address].
Section 04
Reasons
I saw on my visit that the appeal property is one half of a semi-detached pair of houses, with No. 10 as the adjoining building on the western side of [address]. The appeal proposal is for the demolition of an existing single storey side extension and the erection of a wrap-around (for the most part two storey) side and rear extension.
The Officer’s Report essentially raises no objection to the ground floor element of the scheme but is concerned with the first-floor side addition which would extend close to the north-east boundary with No. 14. The first floor would be set back a metre from the existing frontage with a pitched roof over the projecting ground floor. There would additionally be a slight set-down from the main ridge of the property.
This set back and set down would achieve the subservience to the original dwelling as required in the Council’s policies and guidance (the Newham Local Plan 2018 and ‘Altering and [name] 2018 respectively). However, the context is that the appeal dwelling and its pair, No. 10, form part of a group of buildings of the same design and spacing in this part of the Crescent.
This group comprises 14 houses in seven pairs (Nos. 2 & 4 to Nos. 26 & 28) and although at one property a similar side extension to that now proposed has been built, the fact remains that this part of [address] still has a strong character and rhythm. This is due to the similarity of design, the symmetry of the pairs and the space between them, in particular at first floor and roof levels. I agree with the Appeal Decision Ref, 6006602 Council’s view that this development pattern should be safeguarded in the interests of visual amenity.
Applying this objective to the appeal proposal, whilst I accept that the proposed first floor would be of an acceptable design and size for the host dwelling, I consider that in this context it would draw the eye in public views along the Crescent and be perceived negatively as a disruption to the rhythm and symmetry of the [address] street scene. As such, the development would be in unacceptably harmful conflict with Local Plan Policies SP1 and SP3 and contrary to Government policy in Section 12: ‘[name] of the National Planning Policy Framework December 2024.
Section 05
Conclusion
For the reasons set out above, the appeal fails.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 204No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 1 June 2026Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 16 April 2026 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 6006602
- Application reference
- 25/02793/HH
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- London Borough of Newham
- Planning authority code
- E09000025
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
- Not recorded
- Appeal reason
- refused
- Type detail
- Householder
- Jurisdiction
- No Jurisdiction Associated
- Link status
- Not recorded
Site and development
Published appeal-site measurements and planning designations, without the withheld precise location fields.
- Site area
- 0 hectares
- Floor space
- 281 m²
- Number of residences
- Not recorded
- Site in Green Belt
- No
- Agricultural holding
- Not recorded
- Affects setting of a listed building
- Yes
- 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
- 18 March 2026
- Valid date
- 18 March 2026
- Start date
- 24 March 2026
- Planning authority decision date
- 4 March 2026
- Appeal decision date
- 1 June 2026
Case administration
Published recovery, call-in, costs and enforcement information for this case.
- Redetermined
- Not recorded
- Bespoke
- Not recorded
- Date recovered
- Not recorded
- Date not recovered or derecovered
- Not recorded
- Call-in date
- Not recorded
- Costs applied for
- No
- 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
- Back Office
- Dataset status
- Current release
- Catalogue record ID
- 89639
- 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