By Pass Nurseries Dobbies Lane, Marks Tey, Colchester, CO6 1EP

Planning appeal 3290724 at By Pass Nurseries Dobbies Lane, Marks Tey, Colchester, CO6 1EP (Colchester Borough Council) was dismissed on 16 January 2023 by Inspector Cowley R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area.

Change of use of land from garden nursery (sui generis) to B8 storage with external storage of stone slabs up to 3 metres height, hardcore hard standing, new HGV access and frontage opening

Authority: Colchester Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Cowley R
Postcode: CO6 1EP

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area

What decided it

The proposal would considerably erode the existing buffer provided by the appeal site and neighbouring land, bringing development closer to public vantage points and detracting from the prevailing rural character and appearance of the area, contrary to development plan policies.

The economic benefits of additional storage space for the established business were outweighed by the identified harm to character and appearance and conflict with the development plan taken as a whole.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy ENV1 of the Local Plan Section 2Policy DM6 of the Local Plan Section 2Policy SP7 of the Local Plan Section 1Policy DM15 of the Local Plan Section 2

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

17 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 Colchester City Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

Dismissed19 October 20266009296
Land West of Priory Road, Tiptree, Colchester, CO5 0QE
Allowed8 October 20266009395
Land North of Coggeshall Road, Marks Tey, Colchester, CO6 1LT
Dismissed2 October 20266005014
7 East Mersea Road, West Mersea, CO5 8SL
Dismissed2 October 20266005011
7 East Mersea Road, West Mersea, CO5 8SL
Allowed24 September 20266009382
Land at Colchester Rd, Colchester, CO6 3JX

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.