®Planning appeal decision
Land South East of 73 Main Road, Stonely, Cambidgeshire, PE19 5EH
Outline planning application (all mattered reserved except mean of access) for the erection of up to 3no. self-build and custom build dwellinghouses and construction of a footpath
- Authority
- Huntingdonshire District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Aqbal M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal site is in a suitable location for housing having regard to the character and appearance of the countryside and the District's best and most versatile agricultural land
- Whether the proposal would address an identified local requirement for self and custom-build homes
What decided it
The site's location in open countryside with Grade 3 agricultural land, which would be permanently lost and visually eroded by development, combined with the absence of an identified local need for self-build dwellings in Stonely, meant the proposal conflicted with the development plan and could not be justified.
Plan policies cited: Policy LP2, Policy LP9, Policy LP10, Policy LP11, Policy LP12, Policy LP25, Policy LP4
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.