WATERMILL HOUSE, MILL LANE, KETTLEBURGH, SUFFOLK, IP13 7JS

conversion of existing ancillary residential building to form a 2 bedroom self contained dwelling with associated amenity, parking and ev charging provision

Authority: East Suffolk
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Jones H

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal site provides a suitable location for the development proposed having particular regard to the development plan's spatial strategy, its policies on housing and the conversion of buildings within rural areas, and the site's accessibility credentials
The effects of the proposed development upon trees

What decided it

The site's poor accessibility to local services and facilities, combined with the building not meeting the redundancy test required for countryside conversions, means the proposal conflicts with the development plan with no material considerations of sufficient weight to outweigh this conflict.

Framework references: 83, 84

Plan policies cited: SCLP3.1, SCLP3.2, SCLP3.3, SCLP5.3, SCLP5.4, SCLP5.5, SCLP7.1, SCLP10.4, SCLP11.1, SCLP12.34

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Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
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Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
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