# Land south of 18 Thompson Street, Chesterfield

- **Decision:** allowed, 24 August 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: Graham Wraight
- **Authority:** Chesterfield (East Midlands)
- **Appeal reference:** 6011274
- **Application reference:** CHE/25/00866/VCON
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Appeal against obscure-glazing/restrictor condition on north-facing office windows (s73 variation of 2017 light industrial/office scheme)
- **Site context:** inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** DM6
- **Development plan policies:** Chesterfield Borough Local Plan 2020 CLP14, CLP20
- **Main issues:** necessity of condition, overlooking
- **Tags:** tier-2, conditions-appeal, living-conditions, transitional-no-consultation

## Summary
An appeal against a blanket obscure-glazing condition on office windows facing a house. Allowed in effect as a split: the condition was lifted for the as-built windows, which matched an unrestricted 2017 approval, and kept for the new wide windows at the boundary. The DM6 condition tests were applied by name (DL ¶5, 8).

## What made the difference
Window-by-window assessment against the 2017 baseline.

## Policy findings
- **DM6: pass.** condition varied — unnecessary for as-built Office 7 windows (offset, oblique views, matched 2017 approval) but retained for wide windows next to boundary (DL 5-9)
- **P3: fail.** unobscured wide windows at boundary would cause "significant harm" by overlooking (DL 8); code mapped by harvester

## Key facts
- 2017 permission allowed three unrestricted full-size windows to Office 7 (DL 6)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6011274
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/b9457f45-90ba-4d0e-bb71-86e4187b7a58

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