®Planning appeal decision
Agricultural Building At Paddock Farm, Bowridge Hill, Gillingham, Dorset, SP8 5QS
Conversion of redundant rural buildings to two dwellings
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Kent R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site is a suitable location for two dwellings taking into account local and national policy for the re-use of existing buildings, with particular regard to the effect of the proposals on the character and appearance of the site and surrounding landscape
What decided it
The proposals would not enhance the immediate setting of the buildings as required by Policy 29 criterion (g) and the Framework, but would instead cause substantial harm to the character and appearance of the site and surrounding landscape through the introduction of residential paraphernalia and the substantial reconstruction of the buildings.
The modest benefits of the development, including the provision of two dwellings, improved energy performance, 40% biodiversity net gain, and reinstatement of a public footpath, were substantially outweighed by the substantial harm to the character and appearance of the site and surrounding landscape and the conflict with the development plan as a whole.
Framework references: 84, 225, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy 1, Policy 2, Policy 4, Policy 20, Policy 24, Policy 29, Policy 6, Policy 3, Policy 15, Policy 22
Judgments cited: Hibbitt and another v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) and Rushcliffe Borough Council (2) [2016] EWHC 2853 (Admin)
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