Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed8 March 20243320356

Land off Lime Street, Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, GL19 4NE

Planning appeal 3320356 at Land off Lime Street, Eldersfield, Gloucestershire, GL19 4NE (Forest of Dean District Council) was allowed on 8 March 2024 by Inspector Walker K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site would be suitable for housing, having regard to the area's development strategy and the development proposed.

the change of use of an agricultural building to a dwellinghouse (Class C3) alongside associated building operations, and ancillary works

Authority
Forest of Dean District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Change of use
Inspector
Walker K
Postcode
GL19 4NE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the site would be suitable for housing, having regard to the area's development strategy and the development proposed
  • the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
  • whether material considerations exist that are sufficient to outweigh any conflict with development plan policy in respect of the above issues

What decided it

The existence of a genuine fallback position in the form of an extant planning permission for a substantially identical dwelling, which would moderate the conflict with the spatial strategy and Framework, combined with the Council's inability to demonstrate five-year housing land supply, meant the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied.

The conflict with the spatial strategy and Framework regarding isolated homes in the countryside was outweighed by the fallback position and the housing land supply benefits, along with economic, social and energy efficiency benefits, such that adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
CSP.4CSP.5CSP.16CSP.1AP 1AP 4
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 84Paragraph 11
Judgments
Hibbitt v SSCLG & Rushcliffe BC [2016] EWHC 2853 (Admin)

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

2 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 Forest of Dean

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

  1. Allowed19 May 20266002462
    Land at Moat Farm, Newent, GL181JG
  2. Allowed27 August 20253355832
    Forest Lodge St. Whites Road, Cinderford, GL14 3ES
  3. Allowed20 August 20253363981
    Land North East of Grove Lane , Lydney, Gloucestershire
  4. Allowed14 March 20253355043
    Barn, Joyford, Coleford, GL16 7AS
  5. Allowed12 February 20253353011
    Land at the Swan, Ledbury Road, Staunton, Gloucestershire, GL19 3QA

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.