®Planning appeal decision
Bottom Barn, Road Past Crammer Barton, Broadhembury, EX14 3LN
the use of the land for the stationing of a mobile home to allow for the business manager to live on site and oversee the business property outside operational working hours (retrospective application)
- Authority
- East Devon District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Wyborn D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether there is an essential need for a rural worker to be resident on-site in this location
What decided it
The activities on site do not require regular 24-hour attention and security concerns alone, where reasonable practical alternatives exist, do not meet the essential need test for a rural worker dwelling in the countryside.
The support for the established business and the benefits of the security provided by on-site occupation were outweighed by the policy conflict with the countryside location strategy and the failure to demonstrate essential need as defined in Policy H4 and paragraph 80 of the Framework.
Framework references: 80
Plan policies cited: Policy H4, Strategy 7, Policy TC2, Strategy 3
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