14 Victoria Street Denton Tameside M34 2AA

1. 1.The basement bedrooms rely solely on lightwells, which would provide occupants of the rooms with a poor outlook and level of ventilation. The basement living room also suffers from inadequate outlook, ventilation, and unproven light levels, discouraging its use and limiting functional/usable communal space. Additionally, the kitchen lacks sufficient work surfaces for multi-residential use, and several ground floor bedrooms face the busy footway on Market Street, exposing occupants to the liklihood of noise and disturbances. Overall, these factors undermine social cohesion and fail to deliver a high standard of living for future residents, contrary to policy H10 of the Tameside Unitary Development Plan, and paragraph 135(f) of the National Planning Policy Framework, which requires development to promote health and well-being with a high standard of amenity for existing users and future users.
2. 2.The proposed development fails to provide adequate refuse storage facilities to manage the waste generated by the future occupants, likely resulting in the displacement of waste within the site and surrounding area, causing significant negative environmental and health impacts. The proposal is therefore contrary to paragraph 135(f) of the National Planning Policy Framework, which seeks to promote health and well-being with a high standard of amenity, and Policy JP-P1 of Places for Everyone, which requires development to deliver sustainable and well-managed places. NOTES FOR APPLICANT REASON FOR REFUSING PLANNING PERMISSION (amendments refused) Statement under Article 35 (2) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) England Order 2015 (as amended): The Local Planning Authority offered solutions to the applicant in order to make the development acceptable. The applicant was however unwilling to amend the plans. Without these amendments the development would not improve the economic, social and environmental conditions of the area and therefore does not comprise sustainable development. The Local Planning Authority has therefore implemented the requirement in Paragraph 39 of the NPPF.

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

M34 2AA

Date validated

26 November 2025

Architect profile

GOLD SKETCH STUDIOS LTD