Saltney homeowner wins appeal over garden bungalow plan
A decision to refuse plans to build a bungalow behind houses on Victoria Road in Saltney has been overturned by Welsh planning inspectors.
PEDW – Planning and Environmental Decisions Wales – has granted permission for the development in a large garden plot behind a property on Victoria Road.
The site, which has access via a single track unadopted lane, was refused by Flintshire County Council’s Planning Committee as it was ruled to: “constitute tandem backland development which would cause unacceptable harm to the amenity of existing residents as a result of unsuitable access arrangements to the site.”
Flintshire’s own planning officers originally recommended approval of the site, finding no justification to reject the proposal.
“Members of the Planning Committee are not bound by the advice of officers and are free to reach their own conclusions in exercising the balance of planning judgement in coming to a decision,” they said. “Members of the Planning Committee weighed the balance of considerations differently in arriving at their decision.”
But national planning inspectors have granted permission to applicant Rhiannon Lloyd.
In their evidence Flintshire Council argued: “Taking both the circumstances of the site itself and the application of policy, the council concluded that the proposals represented a form of backland development which was in fact a tandem development.
“This would give rise to impacts detrimental to the living conditions of existing adjoining residents. Accordingly the council resolved to refuse the application for the reason outlined above.”
But PEDW inspectors rejected that view.
“The proposal would give rise to some additional vehicular and pedestrian movements along the lane,” they wrote. “However, given the scale of development proposed, such movements would likely be limited in number and frequency.
“Whilst some additional noise and activity arising from the use of the lane by vehicles and pedestrians may therefore occur, it would not be significant or of a level that would be unusual in a suburban setting.
“I therefore find that the proposal would not result in harm to the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers by way of noise and disturbance and complies with Local Development Plan policies PC2 and PC3.”
By Alec Doyle – Local Democracy Reporter
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