Policy information sourced from the Hillingdon Local Plan: Part 2
DMH 6: Garden and Backland Development
There is a presumption against the loss of gardens due to the need to maintain local character, amenity space and biodiversity. In exceptional cases a limited scale of backland development may be acceptable, subject to the following criteria:
- neighbouring residential amenity and privacy of existing homes and gardens must be maintained and unacceptable light spillage avoided;
- vehicular access or car parking should not have an adverse impact on neighbours in terms of noise or light. Access roads between dwellings and unnecessarily long access roads will not normally be acceptable;
- development on backland sites must be more intimate in mass and scale and lower than frontage properties; and
- features such as trees, shrubs and wildlife habitat must be retained or re-provided.
For more information please see the Local Plan: Part 2