- Decision
- allowed, 28 August 2026
- Decided by
- Planning Inspector: L Gardner
- Authority
- Redbridge (London)
- Appeal reference
- 6009681
- Application reference
- 0287/26
- Procedure
- written representations
- Development
- BT Street Hub with illuminated advertisement panels on footway (planning + advertisement consent)
- Site context
- inside settlement
- Green Belt
- No
- Framework applied
- No Framework version cited
- Determinative policies
- s38(6), Redbridge LP LP26, Redbridge LP LP28
- Development plan policies
- Redbridge Local Plan 2018 LP26, LP28, London Plan 2021 D8, T4
- Main issues
- character/visual amenity; highway/public safety
Summary
A BT Street Hub with illuminated ads on a wide footway in Ilford Metropolitan Centre was allowed, for both planning and advertisement consent. It sat comfortably in a busy urban street scene and left an adequate footway.
What made the difference
Context: a large-scale mixed-use centre with plenty of street furniture already, and distance from the junctions. The letter never cites the Framework. Other street-hub letters in the corpus (for example the Reading hub, 6002960, indexed with CO1) do engage the telecoms policy.
Policy findings
Policy codes are those of the National Planning Policy Framework (August 2026) unless a development plan is named.
| Policy | Finding | Weight | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| LP26 / LP28 / D8 (Redbridge LP, London Plan) | accord | subservient and unobtrusive in Metropolitan Centre street scene; footway width retained; not near enough junction/roundabout to distract (DL 9-16) |
Key facts
- Appeal A 6009681 (planning, 0287/26) and Appeal B 6009686 (advertisement consent, 0288/26) decided together (DL 3)
- 2015 payphone prior-approval refusal not comparable (DL 17)
- No reference to the Framework in any version; CO1 not considered
Sources
This note is one of the decisions behind the NPPF 2026 Navigator, which shows how each Framework test has been applied across all the decisions in the database. Also available as Markdown.