Big Pits Quarry, Bidwell Lane, Clipsham, LE15 7WQ

Planning appeal 3319472 at Big Pits Quarry, Bidwell Lane, Clipsham, LE15 7WQ (Rutland County Council) was dismissed on 5 December 2023 by Inspector Cowley R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal site provides a suitable location for the development proposed, with regard to the Council's spatial strategy, national policy and its accessibility.

change of use from disused quarry to a sustainable holiday site including the installation of six holiday cabins and an honesty shop and associated works to provide vehicular parking and pedestrian access

Authority: Rutland County Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector: Cowley R

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site provides a suitable location for the development proposed, with regard to the Council's spatial strategy, national policy and its accessibility

What decided it

The appeal site does not provide a suitable location for the development because its poor accessibility and distance from services would result in most visitor journeys being undertaken by private car, contrary to Policies CS1, CS4, CS15, SP7 and SP25 and NPPF paragraphs 84 and 85 which require sustainable rural tourism development to minimise travel needs and exploit opportunities to make locations more sustainable.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CS1Policy CS4Policy CS15Policy SP7Policy SP25
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 84Paragraph 85Paragraph 105

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

6 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 Rutland

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

Dismissed14 January 20263370329
Rocott Lodge Barn, Melton Road, Langham , Rutland , LE15 7ER
Dismissed29 April 20253350388
Pippin Wood, Preston Road, Wing, LE15 8SB
Allowed2 August 20213271009
The Paddocks, Lyndon Road, Manton, Rutland, LE15 8RN
Dismissed27 July 20213272588
The Rutland Dog Walker Ltd. Stretton Road, Greetham, Oakham, Rutland, LE15 7QX
Dismissed12 October 20266009205
Land Rear of 25-27 Stapleford Road, Whissendine, LE15 7HF

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.