[2024] UKUT 00164 (LC)

The approved plan for ND2 shows in plot A the development known as RD1, which does not have an extant planning permission and is not considered in this decision. ND2 is different in character from the other proposed dwellings in that it is a single storey building with basement. The total floor area of 179 sq m is the smallest of any of the proposed dwellings, with 28% of that area provided within a basement. In the ground floor in the western section there is a kitchen/dining area, a study, hall and WC, with attached cycle and garden store. In the eastern section there is a living room, two bedrooms (labelled bedroom 2 and bedroom 3) and a bathroom. In the basement is a room labelled as a home gym, including a generously sized en suite shower room with double vanity unit (which suggests potential use as bedroom 1), a media room and a utility room.

The building would have a contemporary appearance, with shallow pitched gabled and asymmetrical roofs, and walls featuring a combination of render, vertical timber cladding and brick. As with ND1A, it is a condition of the planning permission, that the 2m high close boarded fence along the majority of the boundary with plot A be maintained for the lifetime of the building.