# Land adjoining Pioneer Point, 3-5 Winston Way, Ilford

- **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
- **Tags:** tier-2, telecoms, street-hub, advertisement, no-framework-reference

## 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
- **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
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6009681
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/5fa5287f-4e1d-4603-8c5d-abaf0bdbc45a

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