Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed12 May 20233310009

The Cottage, Haunton Road, Harlaston, Tamworth, B79 9HS

Planning appeal 3310009 at The Cottage, Haunton Road, Harlaston, Tamworth, B79 9HS (Lichfield District Council) was dismissed on 12 May 2023 by Inspector Bayliss G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for housing having regard to the settlement strategy.

the erection of a 5 bedroom, one and a half storey dwelling including change of use and surrounding works

Authority
Lichfield District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Bayliss G
Postcode
B79 9HS

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for housing having regard to the settlement strategy
  • The effect of the development on the River Mease Special Area of Conservation (SAC)
  • The effect of the development on the ecology of the site

What decided it

The proposal would constitute inappropriate new housing in open countryside contrary to the settlement strategy, and this harm significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefits, compounded by failure to demonstrate nutrient neutrality for the SAC and absence of ecological assessment.

The limited benefits of one dwelling and modest economic and social benefits were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the harm of permitting new housing in an unsustainable location contrary to the development plan settlement strategy.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Core Policy 1Core Policy 6Policy Rural 1Core Policy 13Policy NR8Policy NR3

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

7 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Lichfield

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Allowed21 October 20266014212
    Land At Wood End Lane, Fradley, WS13 8EN
  2. Dismissed21 October 20266013241
    349 Lichfield Street, Fazeley, Tamworth, B78 3QG
  3. Dismissed20 October 20266014237
    The Cottage, The Drive, Lichfield, WS14 9QT
  4. Dismissed7 September 20266009942
    18 Newick Avenue, Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield, B74 3DA
  5. Dismissed3 September 20266007231
    Land Opposite Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witnesses, Chorley Road, Burntwood, WS7 2PF

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.