®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed1 November 20223293196
Manor Farm, Sherborne Road, West Stour, Dorset, SP8 5RP
change of use and conversion of barn buildings to form 3 No. dwellings (Class C3)
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Leonard S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the siting of the building makes it otherwise undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses), having regard to Paragraph Q.2 (1) (e) of the 2015 GPDO, in respect of the living conditions of future occupiers of the proposed dwellings, by virtue of noise disturbance impacts
- Whether the siting of the building makes it otherwise undesirable for the building to change from agricultural use to a use falling within Class C3 (dwellinghouses), having regard to Paragraph Q.2 (1) (e) of the 2015 GPDO, in respect of the setting of the Grade II listed 'Manor Farmhouse'
What decided it
The siting of the barn building in close proximity to multiple sources of agricultural noise disturbance, particularly the large adjacent livestock barn and internal farm access tracks on three sides, makes it undesirable for conversion to residential use under Paragraph Q.2(1)(e) of the 2015 GPDO, as the living conditions of future occupiers would be materially harmed.
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