Witzend, Dorrington Fen, Dorrington, Lincolnshire, LN4 3QB

a caravan to form permanent residential unit. Proposed manège/exercise area

Authority: North Kesteven District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Hunter A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether there is an essential need for a rural worker to live at the appeal site
Flood risk

What decided it

The absence of an established essential need for a rural worker to live permanently at the site, compounded by the caravan's failure to pass the flood risk sequential test.

The appellants' human rights and family/education considerations did not outweigh the lack of essential need and the failure to pass the sequential test, so the caravan element was dismissed, while the uncontested manège/exercise area was allowed.

Framework references: 84, 170, 173

Plan policies cited: Policy S1, Policy S5, Policy S21, Policy S23, Policy S26, Policy S28, CLLP Policy S8, CLLP Policy 61

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