®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to Old Park Farm, Vastern, Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, SN4 7PB
- Authority
- Wiltshire Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Graham J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issues are the location of the development, its effect on the character and appearance of the area, and its implications for highway safety.
What decided it
The proposal's location outside the settlement boundary and conflict with the Development Plan's spatial strategy, compounded by harm to rural character, outweighed the acceptability of highway safety and the difficulty of finding an alternative site.
the conflict with the Development Plan taken as a whole and the harm to rural character outweighed the limited weight attributable to the difficulty of finding an alternative site and the acceptable highway safety position, so the balance tipped against granting planning permission
Framework references: 88, 89
Plan policies cited: Core Policy 1, Core Policy 2, Core Policy 34, Core Policy 51, Core Policy 57, Core Policy 60, Core Policy 61, Policy BD5, Policy BD7, Policy 8
Judgments cited: Murfitt v SSE [1980] JPL 598; Somak Travel v SSE [1987] JPL 630; Bowring v SSCLG & Waltham Forest LBC [2013] EWHC 1115 (Admin)
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.