Planning appeal decision
Broadacre Place, Broadcommon Road, Hurst, Reading, RG10 0RE
Planning appeal 3309433 at Broadacre Place, Broadcommon Road, Hurst, Reading, RG10 0RE (Wokingham Borough Council) was dismissed on 9 May 2023 by Inspector Howell M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether condition is necessary, relevant to planning and the development permitted, enforceable and reasonable with regard to the location of the site and the Council's housing strategy.
Permanent retention of existing mobile home to provide groom's accommodation for care of polo ponies
- Authority
- Wokingham Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Howell M
- Postcode
- RG10 0RE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether condition is necessary, relevant to planning and the development permitted, enforceable and reasonable with regard to the location of the site and the Council's housing strategy
What decided it
The condition is necessary and reasonable to restrict the mobile home to occupation by a rural worker caring for polo ponies, as without this restriction the proposal would constitute unjustified residential development in an isolated location contrary to the development plan and Paragraph 80 of the NPPF.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- CP3CP9CP11
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 80Paragraph 56
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.
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