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Dismissed15 November 20233323604

Boldbridge Brake, Long Newnton, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8RT

Planning appeal 3323604 at Boldbridge Brake, Long Newnton, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8RT (Cotswold District Council) was dismissed on 15 November 2023 by Inspector Wilde J, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether or not the proposed development would provide safe and suitable access for all users of the local highway network.

Extension to yard used for the storage of horticultural products

Authority
Cotswold District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
employment-industrial · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Wilde J
Postcode
GL8 8RT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether or not the proposed development would provide safe and suitable access for all users of the local highway network

What decided it

The additional HGV trips generated by the proposal would further erode highway safety on the narrow rural lanes serving the site, which already carry a disproportionate volume of HGV traffic.

the acknowledged benefits of the successful, growing business did not lead the Inspector to a different conclusion on the unacceptable highway safety harm

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy INF4Policy EC3
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 111

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