®Planning appeal decision
Land South of Brick End, Broxted, CM6 2BJ
‘The change of use of land for the stationing of caravans for residential purposes together with hardstanding and dayroom ancillary to that use and the erection of stables’
- Authority
- Uttlesford District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Chamberlain G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be in a suitable location, with reference to policies concerned with development in the countryside
- The accessibility of services and facilities
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate an adequate five-year supply of Gypsy and Traveller pitches, amounting to a 'policy failure', which gave significant weight to the delivery of the two pitches and outweighed the identified countryside and accessibility harms.
The significant weight given to delivering two Gypsy and Traveller pitches to meet an unmet need (a 'policy failure'), together with moderate weight from broader PPTS sustainability benefits, outweighed the moderate/middling weight attached to conflicts with countryside protection Policies S7 and S8 and accessibility Policy GEN1.
Framework references: 14, 8, 9, 11, 62
Plan policies cited: Policy ENV14, Policy ENV10, Policy S7, Policy S8, Policy GEN1
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.