®Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent Farm Building, Thrapston Road, Woodford, Northamptonshire, NN14 4HY
the change of use of land to a mixed use incorporating 2 family gypsy and traveller pitches for 2 mobile homes, 4 touring caravans, amenity block and associated works, and a paddock for the keeping of horses
- Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Pannell G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
- the effect of the development on biodiversity
What decided it
A temporary (rather than permanent) three-year permission allowed the personal circumstances, unmet accommodation need and children's best interests to outweigh the otherwise decisive landscape/character harm, which would have precluded a permanent grant.
the personal circumstances of the occupiers, their unmet accommodation need and the best interests of the children outweighed the temporary character and appearance harm sufficiently to justify a three-year temporary permission, though these considerations were not sufficient to outweigh that harm for a permanent permission
Framework references: 174
Plan policies cited: Policy 3 of the CS, Policy 31 of the CS, Policy 4 of the CS, Policy 8 of the CS
Judgments cited: Smith v SSLUHC & Ors [2022] EWCA
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