®Planning appeal decision
Southdown View, Long Copse Lane, Emsworth, PO10 7UR
the siting of one additional mobile home and provision of two additional parking spaces
- Authority
- Havant Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Murray D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The appellant's status as a Gypsy/traveller with a nomadic habit of life
- Whether the proposal accords with the development strategy for the area
- The effect on the character and appearance of the rural landscape
- The effect on the living conditions of the occupiers of nearby dwellings
- Whether the proposed development would be 'nutrient neutral' and the effect on the Solent Harbours SPA
- The need and supply of Gypsy and traveller sites locally and the availability of alternative sites
- The appellant and family's personal circumstances
What decided it
The absence of any harm to landscape character, residential amenity or the SPA, combined with an agreed local shortfall of Gypsy/traveller pitches, meant the proposal accorded with the development plan as a whole.
The identified benefits (addressing the shortfall of Gypsy/traveller pitches and enabling family mutual support), together with the lack of harm to landscape, neighbours or the SPA, were not outweighed by any other consideration, so the proposal accorded with the development plan as a whole and the appeal was allowed.
Plan policies cited: Policy CS17, Policy AL2, Policy CS11, Policy CS16, Policy CS10, Policy DM24
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.