Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed30 April 20243331604

Lower Barn Farm , Whalley Road, Sabden, Lancashire, BB7 9DT

Planning appeal 3331604 at Lower Barn Farm , Whalley Road, Sabden, Lancashire, BB7 9DT (Ribble Valley Borough Council) was dismissed on 30 April 2024 by Inspector Francis M, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area and the Forest of Bowland National Landscape.

field mounted 20Kwp field mounted solar PV array

Authority
Ribble Valley Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
utilities-energy · Other minor developments
Inspector
Francis M
Postcode
BB7 9DT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area and the Forest of Bowland National Landscape
  • The effect of the proposal on a public right of way
  • The effect of the proposal on biodiversity

What decided it

The moderate harm to the character and appearance of the area and the landscape setting of the National Landscape, combined with the unresolved public right of way conflict and lack of biodiversity enhancement, outweighed the renewable energy benefits of the proposal.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy EN2Policy DMG1Policy EN3Policy DME5Policy EN4Policy DME3
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 182Paragraph 104

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

12 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Ribble Valley

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

  1. Dismissed7 October 20266011996
    Longworth House, Higher Ramsgreave Road, Ramsgreave, BB1 9DJ
  2. Dismissed30 September 20266009649
    Land on the East Side of Hole House Lane, Tosside, Clitheroe, BB7 4TS
  3. Dismissed25 September 20266009990
    Land to the South of Park Farm, Whalley, Wiswell, BB7 9LB
  4. Dismissed24 September 20266009691
    Land, Land off Shire Lane (Adj Shire Lane House), Hurst Green, BB7 9QR
  5. Allowed22 September 20266009357
    8 Longridge Road, Hurst Green, Clitheroe, BB7 9QP

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.