®Planning appeal decision
The White Swan Inn, Low Street, Thornton Le Clay, YORK, YO60 7TG
change of use of the public house to form 1 no. five bedroom dwellinghouse, alterations to the rear window configurations, erection of porch to front elevation and erection of three bay domestic garage with soft landscaping to front (part retrospective)
- Authority
- Ryedale District Council *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- community-institutional · Change of use
- Inspector
- Williamson J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development would result in the unjustified loss of a community facility
- whether the associated operational development would compromise the operational requirements of the public house, thereby threatening its viability
What decided it
The Inspector was not persuaded that the White Swan had been shown to be no longer economically viable or that suitable and accessible alternatives existed, so the loss of the community facility was unjustified under Policy SP11.
the Inspector found conflict with Policy SP11 and the Framework and no other considerations were advanced by the appellants to outweigh this conflict, so the appeal was dismissed
Framework references: 48, 84, 92, 93
Plan policies cited: Policy SP11, Policy SP21
Judgments cited: Brooker v Unique Pub Properties Limited (2001) (Chancery Division Bristol District Registry Case No. BS002253)
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.