# Land adjacent to 3 School Cottages, Worcester Park (1 dwelling)

- **Decision:** dismissed, 18 September 2026
- **Decided by:** Planning Inspector: G Powys Jones
- **Authority:** Kingston upon Thames (London)
- **Appeal reference:** 6011901
- **Application reference:** 24/03049/FUL
- **Procedure:** written-representations
- **Development:** Two-storey detached house on a side plot
- **Homes:** 1
- **Site context:** inside-settlement
- **Green Belt:** no
- **Framework applied:** August 2026 NPPF
- **Determinative policies:** Kingston CS DM8, Kingston CS DM10
- **Development plan policies:** Kingston Core Strategy DM6, DM8, DM10, London Plan D3, G6
- **Main issues:** character, living conditions, BNG
- **Tags:** bng, design-refusal, small-scheme, tier-2

## Summary
A detached house on a side plot in Worcester Park was dismissed for harm to character, poor privacy and visual intrusion, and missing BNG information (DL ¶7, ¶12, ¶16).

## What made the difference
Cumulative design and amenity failings. The inspector added two amenity harms the council had not raised (DL ¶12). The new Framework did not alter the plan-led outcome (DL ¶18).

## Policy findings
- **DP3: fail.** harm to local character (DL 7)
- **P3: fail.** privacy for future occupiers and visual intrusion - issues raised by the inspector, not the council (DL 9-12)
- **N2: fail.** no BNG information; conflict with "national policy and local policies relating to BNG" (DL 16)

## Key facts
- Parties invited to comment on the 2026 Framework; none did (DL 17)
- Inspector raised living-conditions harms the council had not cited (DL 12)

## Sources
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/comment-planning-appeal/appeals/6011901
- https://appeal-planning-decision.service.gov.uk/published-document/f17069ee-aa28-496f-a6c6-f839b6c6ce6b

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