®Planning appeal decision
Higher Walls Cottage Walls Clough, ROSSENDALE, BB4 9NE
Convert barn storage loft to living accommodation. Change of use of barn/stables from private use (condition 3 App 2003/411) to commercial use
- Authority
- Rossendale Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Ellison H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the appeal site represents a suitable location for a new dwelling, having regard to local and national planning policies
- whether satisfactory living conditions would be provided for future occupiers
What decided it
The proposal failed to meet any exception for a dwelling in the countryside under the development plan spatial strategy and would not provide satisfactory living conditions for future occupiers due to proximity to commercial equestrian use.
The moderate economic benefits from tourism and leisure provision and limited benefits from one additional dwelling were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the harm from introducing a dwelling in the countryside contrary to the spatial strategy and the poor living conditions that would result for future occupiers.
Framework references: 11, 88, 135
Plan policies cited: Policy SS, Policy SD1, Policy SD2, Policy HS13, Policy HS12, Policy HS8, Policy LT6, Policy LT3, Policy LT4, Policy LT5
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.