®Planning appeal decision
Badgers, Yorkley Wood Road, Yorkley, Gloucestershire, GL15 4TY
Planning appeal 3322289 at Badgers, Yorkley Wood Road, Yorkley, Gloucestershire, GL15 4TY (Forest of Dean District Council) was dismissed on 14 February 2024 by Inspector Walker K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be in a suitable location for housing having regard to the development plan, including accessibility to services and facilities.
the construction of a new stand alone two-storey dwelling house with attached workshop/garage made in structural insulated timber panels, with a low pitched zinc roof including PV arrays. Scheme includes felling of western red cedar stands and new biodiverse landscaping of the immediate surroundings of the house, including horticultural, orchard and meadow planting, and incorporating gabion retaining walls in local stone
- Authority
- Forest of Dean District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Walker K
- Postcode
- GL15 4TY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be in a suitable location for housing having regard to the development plan, including accessibility to services and facilities
- the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the surrounding area
What decided it
The cumulative effect of locating a permanent residential dwelling in an unsuitable location with poor accessibility to services and facilities, requiring reliance on private car use, combined with harm to character and appearance through vegetation removal and incongruous built form, significantly and demonstrably outweighs the modest benefits of housing delivery and self-build provision.
The modest benefits of housing delivery, self-build provision, and renewable energy design are significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the unsuitable location with poor access to services and facilities and harm to character and appearance, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development does not apply.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CSP.1Policy CSP.4Policy CSP.5Policy CSP.16Policy AP1Policy AP4Policy AP6
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11
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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