It typically increases the floorspace of a building by a quarter to a third, adding a substantial quantum of housing. [...] Following a campaign by Create Streets, a new clause appeared in the NPPF (124(e)) explicitly permitting mansards on appropriate properties, provided that mansards emulate the style of mansards in the area at the time of the building’s construction. [...] In recent months, a clutch of mansard applications have indeed been approved on appeal on the basis of this clause, for example this scheme in Gloucester Road and this scheme in Chesterton Road. [...] The Inspectorate is now clearly implementing the intention of the NPPF that, under the specified circumstances, mansards should be approved. [...] But it constitutes an intervention in development management at a level of detail that was traditionally uncommon: the Government decided that a certain highly specific kind of development was in the national interest and announced that it would henceforth be permitted everywhere.
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- Samuel Hughes argues that we should preserve the new liberty to create mansards that fit in July 2024 1
- Although they add nearly a full floor mansards impose very little visual burden on the street. Indeed 1
- A sawtooth effect. Prohibiting the other houses from adding mansards means that this curious effect 2
- Camden Council allowed these mansards to be added on condition that they were added 2
- Dr Samuel Hughes is a fellow of Create Streets and has worked widely in housing design and planning policy. 3
