Barn Adjacent to Chalks Farm, High Easter Road, Leading Roding, CM6 1QQ

conversion of the existing building

Authority: Uttlesford District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Chalk M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be permitted development in accordance with Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, considering the effect on biodiversity, the effect on the significance of the Grade II listed Chalks Farmhouse, and whether the development would consist of building operations beyond the extent reasonably necessary for the building to function as a dwellinghouse

What decided it

The absence of sufficient information to demonstrate that the proposed development would not cause significant harm to biodiversity, contrary to the requirements of Schedule 2, Part 3, Class Q of the Order.

The less than substantial harm to the listed building would have been outweighed by the public benefit of one new dwelling and the Council's housing land supply shortfall, but this balance was not reached because the biodiversity issue was fatal to the permitted development claim.

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