Land North of Red Cottage, 1 Weel Road, Tickton, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU17 9RY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• the impact of the development on the character and appearance of the area
• the effects on the safety or living conditions of the site occupiers resulting from flood risk
• whether the development amounts to intentional unauthorised development, and if so what weight to attribute to this factor
• the provision of Traveller sites and the outstanding need for them, and the availability or otherwise of any alternative sites
• the personal circumstances of the site's occupiers, their Human Rights and the best interests of the children living on the site

What decided it

The failure to pass the sequential and exception tests for flood risk, given the site's location in Flood Zone 3 and the highly vulnerable nature of the residential caravan use, outweighed the countervailing personal and policy considerations.

significant countervailing benefits including the children's best interests, human rights considerations, medical needs, absence of alternative sites, moderate weight from the shortfall in five-year pitch supply and overall compliance with Policy H3 did not outweigh the very substantial weight attributed to the unresolved flood risk to highly vulnerable development in Flood Zone 3