®Planning appeal decision
Docker Hall, Docker, KENDAL, LA8 0DB
outline application for 1no key worker dwelling with provision for a detached double garage, and new access to the highway
- Authority
- South Lakeland District Council *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wilkinson F
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether there is an essential need for an agricultural worker to be permanently resident at or near their place of work
- if so, whether there is justification for the agricultural worker's dwelling as proposed
What decided it
The Inspector concluded that the essential need for an additional agricultural worker to live permanently at or near the farm clearly outweighed the limited harm to countryside character caused by the dwelling's siting.
The essential need for an agricultural worker dwelling would clearly outweigh the identified limited harm to the character and appearance of the area and the limited conflict with paragraph 174 of the Framework.
Framework references: 80, 174, 180, 56
Plan policies cited: Policy DM15, Policy DM1, Policy DM7
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