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Notice varied and upheld9 December 20213269917

Sheepcote Farm, Clifford, Hereford, HR3 5HU

Planning appeal 3269917 at Sheepcote Farm, Clifford, Hereford, HR3 5HU (Herefordshire Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 9 December 2021 by Inspector Willows P, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development accords with the Sequential Test, as set out in local and national policy relating to flood risk.

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
Postcode
HR3 5HU

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.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SD3Policy LD4

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