®Planning appeal decision
Plot 2A, Spring View Flintham Lane, Screveton, Nottingham, NG13 8QY
Planning appeal 3285162 at Plot 2A, Spring View Flintham Lane, Screveton, Nottingham, NG13 8QY (Rushcliffe Borough Council) was dismissed on 28 February 2023 by Inspector Renaudon L, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development accorded with local and national policies concerning the provision of gypsy and traveller sites and the protection of the countryside.
the material change of use of land for stationing caravans for residential occupation with associated hard standing, internal access road, fencing, package treatment plant, utility buildings and additional landscaping without complying with conditions 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 imposed by planning permission ref 18/00030/FUL . Summary
- Authority
- Rushcliffe Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Renaudon L
- Postcode
- NG13 8QY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development accorded with local and national policies concerning the provision of gypsy and traveller sites and the protection of the countryside
- The effect on character and appearance and on living conditions of the subdivision of the site into additional pitches and the increase in numbers of pitches/caravans
- Whether the condition relating to the permitted occupiers of the site should be varied
What decided it
No sufficient justification was shown for varying either the pitch-numbers/layout condition or the personal occupancy condition attached to the 2018 permission, and the current occupiers were found already to comply with that condition.
The harm to character and appearance and to living conditions from the unauthorised subdivision, together with the continuing need for a personal occupancy condition, outweighed the absence of any case for relaxation, and no benefits were advanced sufficient to justify varying the conditions.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Core Strategy policy 9Core Strategy policy 10policy 9(3)(a)
- Judgments
- Finney [2019] EWCA Civ 1868; Armstrong [2023] EWHC 176 (Admin); Reed [2014] EWCA Civ 241
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.
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