Planning Appeal Success – First-floor Rear Extension in Hillingdon

Hillingdon Council has some very restrictive planning policies relating to homeowner extensions (especially policy DMHD 1 of the Local Plan Part 2) and applies them rigorously, sometimes – in our view, at least – unfairly refusing good schemes. In this case, the applicant wanted to extend his home by way of a first-floor rear extension. […]

Planning Appeal Success – Change of Use to a Mix of House and Medical Clinic

Overview This case concerned an appeal against the refusal of planning permission for the use of part of a house as a small medical and professional clinic, alongside continued use as a dwellinghouse, at 13 Thorpland Avenue in Ickenham. The proposal involved a mixed use falling within Use Class C3 and Class E, comprising a […]