Minor change to 25/90672/B (Additional use of workshop as occupational therapy facility) alterations to doors and fenestration to southeast and southwest elevations

Why Was This Approved?

• ✓Replacement of French double doors with a single door — minor change to appearance only
• ✓Addition of one new window beside an existing window on the building's elevations
• ✓No increase in size or scale of the building
• ✓Nature of the approved occupational therapy use unchanged
• ✓No new or increased impacts on neighbouring properties, visual amenity, or highway safety
• ✓Remains compliant with the development plan and relevant planning policy

This application sought a minor amendment to permission 25/90672/B, which approved the partial change of use of a workshop to an occupational therapy unit with associated alterations to windows and doors. The specific changes proposed here were replacing French double doors with a single door and adding one new window alongside an existing window on the southeast and southwest elevations. The officer assessed the changes against the statutory minor change criteria. The alterations do not increase the size or scale of the building, do not change the nature of the approved development, and remain compliant with the development plan and relevant policy. No new or increased impacts on neighbouring properties, visual amenity, or highway safety were identified compared with the parent approval. The changes were judged to be genuinely minor and not of a magnitude requiring a fresh application.

The changes were approved because they met all the criteria for a minor amendment: they do not increase the building's size or scale, do not alter the nature of the development, remain policy-compliant, and introduce no new adverse impacts on neighbours, visual amenity, or highway safety.

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