Land Adjacent The Stables, Patchole, Kentisbury, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4NB

Planning appeal 3288689 at Land Adjacent The Stables, Patchole, Kentisbury, Barnstaple, Devon, EX31 4NB (North Devon District Council) was dismissed on 21 December 2022 by Inspector Rogers J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site is an appropriate location for open market housing, having regard to local planning policies in respect of villages without development boundaries.

the erection of 3no. dwellings

Authority: North Devon District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Rogers J
Postcode: EX31 4NB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site is an appropriate location for open market housing, having regard to local planning policies in respect of villages without development boundaries

What decided it

The site is not located within the principal built form of Patchole as required by Policy DM23 for open market housing, and the moderate housing benefits do not outweigh this conflict with the development plan under the tilted balance.

The moderate benefits of three additional dwellings and limited social and environmental benefits were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the conflict with policies ST01 and DM23 of the development plan, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy ST07Policy DM23Policy ST01Policy ST19
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 74

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

5 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 North Devon

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

Notice varied and upheld16 September 20263367531
31 High Street, Ilfracombe, Devon, EX34 9DA
Dismissed7 August 20266008489
Quiet Waters, Atherington, EX37 9HZ
Dismissed3 August 20266010545
Land South of Four Crossway, Bratton Fleming, Barnstaple, EX32 7JL
Dismissed24 June 20266005672
Land off Bottoms Lane, Darracott, EX33 1JY
Allowed18 June 20266006157
Horseshoe Lodge, Burrington, Umberleigh, EX37 9LH

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.