# 16-20 Banksfield Avenue, Yeadon (garden extension across PROW)

- **Decision:** allowed, 1 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: Ryan Cowley
- **Authority:** Leeds (Yorkshire and the Humber)
- **Appeal reference:** 6010787
- **Application reference:** 25/06990/FU
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Change of use of land to domestic garden and rear fencing alongside a public right of way
- **Site context:** inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** TR8
- **Development plan policies:** Leeds Core Strategy P10, Leeds UDP GP5, LD1
- **Main issues:** public right of way
- **Tags:** prow, transitional-no-consultation, tier-2

## Summary
Enclosing land behind three houses as garden, with fencing near a public right of way, was allowed. The path's free and unobstructed use was unaffected (DL ¶13).

## What made the difference
The fencing did not narrow or obstruct the route. The inspector mapped TR8 to old paragraph 105 (DL ¶13).

## Policy findings
- **TR8: pass.** no harm to free and unobstructed use of the PROW; TR8 "formerly Paragraph 105" (DL 13)

## Key facts
- Not re-consulted: relevant parts "have not substantively changed" (DL 4)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6010787
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/7b466e83-9309-46ea-9ceb-f87d7f4872e4

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