®Planning appeal decision
Land rear of Lilac House, The Street, Draycott, CHEDDAR, BS27 3TH
to replace detached outbuilding used as therapy studio and residential bedsit with dwellinghouse
- Authority
- Mendip District Council *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Evans J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether the proposal would afford future occupiers acceptable living conditions, with particular regard to outdoor amenity space and outlook
What decided it
The significant harm to character and appearance combined with unacceptable living conditions for future occupiers substantially and demonstrably outweighs the benefits of housing delivery, even under the tilted balance of paragraph 11(d) of the Framework.
The benefits of providing an additional dwelling and associated social and economic benefits were substantially and demonstrably outweighed by significant environmental and social harms to character and appearance and living conditions, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy DP1, Policy DP7, Policy CP1, Policy CP2
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