The New Barn Ham Road, Charlton Kings, CHELTENHAM, GL52 6ND

a first-floor side extension

Authority: Cheltenham Borough Council
Appeal type: householder · Householder (HAS)
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Householder developments
Inspector: Indermaur S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the first-floor side extension on the character and appearance of the host dwelling and the surrounding area as well as the need to conserve the landscape and scenic beauty of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (the AONB)

What decided it

The scale and bulk of the proposed first-floor extension would cause harm to the character and appearance of the existing barn conversion and fail to conserve the landscape and scenic beauty of the AONB.

No balancing exercise was undertaken; the harm to character and appearance and failure to conserve the AONB was determinative.

Plan policies cited: Policy D1 of the Cheltenham Plan (2020), Policy SD4 of the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewskesbury Joint Core Strategy 2011-2031 (2017), Policy SD7 of the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewskesbury Joint Core Strategy 2011-2031 (2017), Policy CE1 of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2018-23, Policy CE3 of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2018-23

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