®Planning appeal decision
Black Gate Farm, High Mill Road, Cobholm, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0DL
without planning permission, operational development consisting of the surfacing of the Land in impermeable asphalt and the material change of use of the Land from a residential curtilage to a mixed use of a residential curtilage and the standing and use of seven static caravans for the purposes of a residential use in the approximate area marked with hatching on the plan attached to the notice
- Authority
- Broads
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Saward K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether there would be a risk to safety from flooding and the effect of the surfacing on flood risk
- Whether there is compliance with local and national policies for the provision of gypsy and traveller accommodation
- The effect of the surfacing on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether there are any other considerations which outweigh any development plan conflict
What decided it
The unresolved and unassessed flood risk to the highly vulnerable caravan residential use, in the absence of an up-to-date Flood Risk Assessment or evidence satisfying the Sequential Test, outweighed the other considerations in favour of the development.
the harm identified from potential flood risk was so important that the conflict with the development plan was not outweighed by the personal circumstances of the gypsy/traveller families, the best interests of the children, or the social benefits of a settled base, so the appeal on ground (a) failed
Framework references: 159, 162, 167, 126, 59
Plan policies cited: Policy DM35, Policy DM5, Policy DM6, Policy DM36, Policy DM43, Policy SP15
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.