®Planning appeal decision
'The Bunker', Land South of Lyndhurst Rd A35, Nr Ashurst Railway Station , Ashurst, SO40 7AA
change of use and conversion of existing building to a dwelling
- Authority
- New Forest
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site is suitable in location and appropriate for a market dwelling by conversion and re-use of The Bunker
- the effect of the proposal on the significance of The Bunker non-designated heritage asset
- the effect of the proposal on bats and reptiles, which are protected species
- whether the proposal would provide sufficient internal living space and satisfactory private external amenity space
What decided it
The proposal conflicts with the local plan spatial strategy for National Parks by introducing market housing in the countryside outside settlement boundaries, and would cause considerable harm to the significance of The Bunker as a non-designated heritage asset, with public benefits insufficient to outweigh this harm.
Framework references: 11, 82, 83, 84, 202, 216
Plan policies cited: Policy SP4, Policy SP19, Policy DP49, Policy SP16, Policy DP2, Policy SP6
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.