®Planning appeal decision
Sheepcote Farm, Clifford, HEREFORD, HR3 5HU
a diary unit comprising of the erection of a cattle cubicle building, milking parlour building, feed & milk silos, ancillary works plus retention of slurry lagoon
- Authority
- Herefordshire Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- agricultural · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Willows P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development accords with the Sequential Test, as set out in local and national policy relating to flood risk
- Whether the development would be served by an implementable and technically adequate drainage system
- Whether the setting of the Grade II listed Sheepcote Farmhouse would be preserved
- The effect of the development on biodiversity and the integrity of the River Wye SAC/SSSI and Severn Estuary SAC/SPA/SSSI/Ramsar site
What decided it
The development's failure to pass the Sequential Test for flood risk, compounded by the absence of a sufficiently detailed and certain drainage scheme.
Even if the benefits of the development were fully as the appellant stated, they would not outweigh the harm found from failure of the Sequential Test and inadequate drainage proposals, and the proposal conflicted with the development plan as a whole.
Plan policies cited: Policy SD3, Policy LD4
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.