®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to Coppice Cottages, Coombe Road, East Meon Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 1NX
12 new dwellings comprising 2 no. detached 2 storey houses, 6 no. detached two-storey houses, 1 no two-storey building comprising 4 flats, detached car barns, 2 no. new accesses from Coombe Road, new footpath, attenuation pond, swales and 5 metre landscape buffer on southern boundary
- Authority
- South Downs
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Webb B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area, including the South Downs National Park
What decided it
The site's allocation in Policy EM16 of the Neighbourhood Plan for 11 houses logically accepted that some adverse landscape effects would be acceptable, and the proposed scheme would achieve conservation and enhancement of the National Park's landscape character to the extent possible within that constraint.
The transformative effect on the landscape and some adverse effects on character were outweighed by the site's allocation in the development plan and the scheme's achievement of conservation and enhancement of the National Park's landscape character to the extent possible given that allocation.
Framework references: 176, 57
Plan policies cited: Policy EM16, Policy SD1, Policy SD4, Policy SD6, Policy SD5, Policy EM6, Policy SD21, Policy SD11, Policy SD27, Policy SD28, Policy EM5, Policy SD48
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.