®Planning appeal decision
Blanches Farm Bungalow, Littleworth Lane, Partridge Green, HORSHAM, RH13 8JF
a bungalow and garage with vehicular and pedestrian access without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref WG/18/71, dated 24 August 1971
- Authority
- Horsham District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Douglas L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the Condition is necessary, relevant to the development, and reasonable in all other respects, with regard to local and national planning policies for development in the countryside
- the personal circumstances of the appellant
What decided it
The Inspector's finding that the appellant had not demonstrated an absence of need for an agricultural/forestry worker's dwelling at the site, so the occupancy condition remained justified.
The interference with the appellant's Article 8 rights caused by retaining the Condition was found to be proportionate and necessary in the public interest of protecting the district's agricultural/forestry workers' housing stock, outweighing the appellant's personal circumstances.
Framework references: 56, 80
Plan policies cited: Policy 2, Policy 3, Policy 4, Policy 26, Policy 29
Judgments cited: Shortt v SSCLG & Tewkesbury BC [2014] EWHC 2480 (Admin)
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