Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed24 May 20223286625

Land to North of Sunnybrook, Highleigh Road, Sidlesham, PO20 7NN, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 7NN

Planning appeal 3286625 at Land to North of Sunnybrook, Highleigh Road, Sidlesham, PO20 7NN, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 7NN (Chichester District Council) was dismissed on 24 May 2022 by Inspector Reid J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect that the proposed development would have on the character and appearance of the surrounding area.

a single storey private dwelling house

Authority
Chichester District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Reid J
Postcode
PO20 7NN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect that the proposed development would have on the character and appearance of the surrounding area
  • future occupiers' safety from flooding
  • biodiversity interests on and near the site
  • the Chichester and Langstone Harbours Special Protection Area (SPA) and the Pagham Harbour SPA

What decided it

The proposal failed to comply with the development plan on multiple grounds—lack of countryside justification, harmful impact on character and appearance, insufficient flood risk evidence, and inadequate biodiversity assessment—and these conflicts were not outweighed by other considerations.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy 1Policy 2Policy 45Policy 46Policy 40Policy 33Policy 48Policy 42Policy 49Policy 50Policy 51
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 80Paragraph 134

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

56 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Chichester

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2022

  1. Dismissed23 October 20266009623
    Friars House, 52a East Street, Chichester, PO19 1JG
  2. Dismissed15 October 20266010948
    Pendrills, Mill Lane, Fishbourne, PO19 3JN
  3. Dismissed5 October 20266011850
    8 Gloucester Way, Chichester, PO19 5DL
  4. Dismissed2 October 20266011615
    1, Harberton Crescent, Chichester, PO19 5NY
  5. Allowed30 September 20266014666
    Lerryn, West Strand, West Wittering, Chichester, PO20 8AU

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.