[2024] UKUT 00164 (LC)

ND1A has three bedrooms, a bathroom and an en suite shower room on the first floor. At ground floor below that section of the house it has a living room, large hall, study and WC/shower room. In the continuation ground floor, within the single storey part of the house at the eastern end, it has an L-shaped kitchen/dining/living area with access to the garden. This is the only one of the four proposed dwellings considered in this application which has no basement accommodation. A particular feature of the proposal, and a condition of the planning permission, is the maintenance for the lifetime of the development of a 2m high fence, standing on a 0.8m high retaining wall, along the majority of the boundary with plot A.

The applicant describes this proposed dwelling as more favourable for the objector than a proposal on the same site for which modification was refused in the 2020 decision but, as I explained in the case management hearing, this is a stand-alone application which will not be determined by detailed comparison with proposals from the previous application. None-the-less, the floor area of the accommodation, at 192.3 sq m, has been reduced considerably from the earlier proposal, particularly at first floor, to make a less intrusive structure.