Clay Lane House, Warningcamp, Arundel, BN18 9QN

Planning appeal 3271114 at Clay Lane House, Warningcamp, Arundel, BN18 9QN (South Downs) was dismissed on 2 September 2021 by Inspector Jackson R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect on the landscape and scenic beauty of the South Downs National Park.

provision of a steel horse walker and all-weather equestrian exercise arena

Authority: South Downs
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Other minor developments
Inspector: Jackson R
Postcode: BN18 9QN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect on the landscape and scenic beauty of the South Downs National Park

What decided it

The horse walker would be a comparatively tall, conspicuous, quasi-industrial feature readily visible from public rights of way that would not respond to local character and would harm the landscape and scenic beauty of the National Park, whereas the arena would be largely imperceptible and would support proper land management.

The benefits of the arena in supporting conservation-based land management and preventing overuse of the holding outweighed the minimal landscape effects, whereas the harm to landscape and scenic beauty from the horse walker could not be justified by any material considerations.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy SD1Policy SD2Policy SD4Policy SD5Policy SD24
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 176

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

6 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in South Downs

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2021

Allowed15 December 20253367752
Hockley Golf Club, Winchester Road, Twyford, Hampshire, SO21 1PL
Allowed21 November 20253359693
Ditchling Rugby Club, Land At Keymer Road , Ditchling , East Sussex, BN6 8TR
Allowed20 June 20253358830
Land at Middleham , Lewes Road , Ringmer , BN8 5EY
Allowed6 October 20233308461
Land West of Ravenscroft, Storrington, West Sussex, RH20 4EH
Allowed28 June 20233312605
The Rubbing House Town Lane, Goodwood, Chichester, PO18 0SP

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.