®Planning appeal decision
Doverte Cottage Millend, North Nibley, DURSLEY, GL11 6ED
use of a stable outbuilding as an annexe
- Authority
- Stroud District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Webb B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development would conserve and enhance the natural and scenic beauty of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (the AONB)
- the effect of the development on bats
What decided it
The development would fail to conserve and enhance the natural and scenic beauty of the AONB by appearing as a separate dwelling rather than an annexe, creating intrusive suburbanisation, and the appellants failed to demonstrate that effects on protected bat species would be acceptable.
The appellants' case on need for the annexe, which was neither clear nor consistent, did not outweigh the identified harm to the AONB and failure to address protected species concerns.
Framework references: 176
Plan policies cited: Policy ES7, Policy HC7, Policy ES6
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