Land North of Winchfield Court, Pale Lane, Winchfield, Hook, RG27 8SP

Planning appeal 3343755 at Land North of Winchfield Court, Pale Lane, Winchfield, Hook, RG27 8SP (Hart District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 17 April 2025 by Inspector Griffin E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the development is appropriate development in a countryside location.

Installation of fence and gates exceeding 1 metre in height, formation of access from classified highway, engineering works to drainage ditch, formation of track and hardstanding, external cladding of former sewage pumping station building, installation of flue, erection of lean-to and side extension to building, laying of concrete hardstanding, and erection of shed with surrounding fencing

Authority: Hart District Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Other minor developments
Inspector: Griffin E
Postcode: RG27 8SP

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the development is appropriate development in a countryside location
The effect of the development upon the character and appearance of the area
The effect of the development on biodiversity

What decided it

The development is located in an inappropriate countryside location and causes significant harm to character and appearance through its urbanised appearance and loss of the natural green corridor, which cannot be justified by the appellant's other considerations.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy SD1Policy SS1Policy NBE1Policy NBE2Policy NBE4Policy NBE9Policy GEN1Policy NE1Policy NE6
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 135Paragraph 187

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

32 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 Hart

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Notice upheld29 September 20253343856
159 Aldershot Road, Church Crookham, Fleet, GU52 8JS
Dismissed24 September 20253340101
Chestnut House Redlands Lane, Crondall, Farnham, GU10 5RF
Notice varied and upheld14 July 20253328103
Hares Farm, Pickaxe Lane, South Warnborough, Hook, RG29 1SD
Notice varied and upheld20 February 20253329483
Granary Court, Alton Road, South Warnborough, RG29 1RZ
Planning permission granted10 September 20243340605
Church Farm West, Bramshill Road, Hook, RG27 0PS

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.