®Planning appeal decision
Box Bush Barn Oxenhall Lane, Gorsley, ROSS-ON-WYE, HR9 7BJ
the continued use of former barn as a dwelling (C3 use)
- Authority
- Forest of Dean District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Butcher C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site is in a suitable location, taking account of the Council's spatial strategy and access to services and facilities
- whether the loss of a unit for tourism is justified
What decided it
The enduring harm from locating a residential dwelling in an unsustainable location requiring heavy car dependency, combined with the unjustified loss of a permitted tourism unit, significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefits of providing a single dwelling in a context of housing shortfall.
The benefits of housing provision and re-use of a previously developed site were afforded limited weight and were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the significant weight given to the harm from unsustainable location and loss of tourism use.
Framework references: 11, 84
Plan policies cited: Policy CSP4, Policy CSP5, Policy CSP16, Policy CSP7
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.