®Planning appeal decision
Badgers, Yorkley Wood Road, Yorkley, Gloucestershire, GL15 4TY
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
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.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy CSP.1, Policy CSP.4, Policy CSP.5, Policy CSP.16, Policy AP1, Policy AP4, Policy AP6
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.