®Planning appeal decision
Plot 2 Pony Paddock, Land Adjacent to Chairmakers Arms, Forest Road, Worlds End, Denmead, Hampshire, PO7 4QX
Planning appeal 3320989 at Plot 2 Pony Paddock, Land Adjacent to Chairmakers Arms, Forest Road, Worlds End, Denmead, Hampshire, PO7 4QX (Winchester City Council) was allowed on 24 October 2025 by Inspector King T, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The current need for gypsy and traveller accommodation in the Winchester City Council area, related policy, and whether the Council can demonstrate a five year land supply for such.
Material change of use of the land from agriculture to a mixed use involving the residential use of a caravan, caravan storage, and the laying of scalpings to facilitate the mixed use
- Authority
- Winchester City Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- King T
- Postcode
- PO7 4QX
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The current need for gypsy and traveller accommodation in the Winchester City Council area, related policy, and whether the Council can demonstrate a five year land supply for such
- The development's effect on the character and appearance of the surrounding countryside
- The implications for nitrate neutrality on the Solent water environment, in accordance with obligations under the Habitats Regulations
What decided it
The Council's acknowledged shortfall in the five-year supply of deliverable gypsy and traveller pitches (3.2 years), combined with the lack of suitable alternative sites and the family's personal circumstances, which the Inspector found just tipped the balance in favour of allowing the appeal, albeit only for a temporary period.
the significant harm to the character and appearance of the countryside and the weight attached to intentional unauthorised development were outweighed by the unmet need for gypsy and traveller pitches, the absence of suitable alternative sites, and the appellant family's personal circumstances, tipping the balance narrowly in favour of allowing the appeal but only via a temporary five-year permission
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CP5Policy DM4Policy DM23Policy CP15Policy CP16Policy MTRA4Policy H12Policy H14
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 129
- Judgments
- CG Fry & Son Ltd v SSLUHC [2024] EWCA Civ 730
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.
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