®Planning appeal decision
Land at Pear Tree Farm, Furners Lane, Woodmancote, HENFIELD, West Sussex, BN5 9HX
Without planning permission the excavation of the land and consolidation of imported material to form a hardstanding and creation of an earth bund
- Authority
- Horsham District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Dignan P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Appeal A ground (a): whether the development is an appropriate form of development in the location and the effect on the character and appearance of the area
- Appeal C ground (a): whether the development is an appropriate form of development in the location and the effect on the character and appearance of the area
What decided it
For Appeals A and C, the harm to rural character and conflict with countryside protection policies (and, for Appeal C, the development plan as a whole) outweighed the limited benefits, while Appeal B's notice was quashed because the planning unit had been misidentified.
in Appeal C the very limited housing contribution from the caravans was significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the harm from the inappropriate countryside location and effect on character and appearance, tipping the balance against the development
Framework references: 11, 14
Plan policies cited: HDPF Policy 3, HDPF Policy 19, HDPF Policy 22, HDPF Policy 25, HDPF Policy 26, HNP Policy 1
Judgments cited: Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment [1972] 1 WLR 1207
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.