Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice upheld3 April 20243300653

Fairview Farm, Forest Road, Hurst, RG40 5SA

Planning appeal 3300653 at Fairview Farm, Forest Road, Hurst, RG40 5SA (Wokingham Borough Council) was dismissed on 3 April 2024 by Inspector Walker A, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the development upon the character and appearance of the countryside location (Appeals A, P and Q).

without planning permission, the material change of use of the Land to a mixed commercial and storage use and the erection of three buildings

Authority
Wokingham Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector
Walker A
Postcode
RG40 5SA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the development upon the character and appearance of the countryside location (Appeals A, P and Q)
  • the effect of the development upon the living conditions of neighbours particularly as regards noise and activity from comings and goings (Appeal A)
  • the effect of the development upon the character and appearance of the countryside location and upon biodiversity (Appeals N and R)

What decided it

The significant harm caused by the developments to the character and appearance of the countryside location and Valued Landscape outweighed the benefits and was not offset by any other material considerations.

the moderate weight given to the rural economic benefits of the enterprise did not outweigh the significant harm to the character and appearance of the countryside location and the conflict with the development plan

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
CP1CP3CP11CC03TB21TB23
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 180
Judgments
Gabbitas v SSE & Newham BC [1985] JPL 630; Sage v SSETR & Maidstone BC [2003] UKHL 22

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

53 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 Wokingham Borough Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

  1. Allowed8 June 20263371069
    Land North of Reading Road, Arborfield, RG2 9HN
  2. Notice varied and upheld1 May 20263346384
    Old Billingbear Brickworks, Carters Hill, Binfield, Wokingham, RG40 5RS
  3. Notice upheld10 March 20263374730
    Land at Gravelley Bridge Farm, Grazeley Green Road, Grazeley, Reading, RG7 1LG
  4. Notice varied and upheld4 March 20263358834
    Bluebell Farm, Commonfield Lane, Wokingham, RG40 4RP
  5. Allowed26 January 20263374952
    Unit 10, Land at Headley Road East, Woodley, RG5 4SN

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.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.