Hall Farm Ltd, Unit 12, Hall Farm Business Park, Martham Road, Rollesby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 5DR

Planning appeal 3347097 at Hall Farm Ltd, Unit 12, Hall Farm Business Park, Martham Road, Rollesby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 5DR (Great Yarmouth Borough Council) was allowed on 3 April 2025 by Inspector Pearce S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether condition No 3 is reasonable in the interests of biodiversity.

Retrospective application for retention of 4 units (6, 6a, 19 and 20) and erection and/or completion of 3 new buildings (Units 9, 10 and 11, 7 in total) to be used as storage/workshop units and for office use

Authority: Great Yarmouth Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Minor offices/R&D/light industry
Inspector: Pearce S
Postcode: NR29 5DR

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether condition No 3 is reasonable in the interests of biodiversity
whether condition No 2 is necessary and enforceable in the interests of protecting dark sky character
whether condition No 4 is reasonable and necessary in the interests of preserving the setting of a Grade II listed building, Hall Farmhouse

What decided it

The original 3-month timeframe in condition No 3 was unreasonable as it did not provide sufficient time to prepare and submit the required bat survey and biodiversity information, obtain approval, and implement the works, particularly given the seasonal constraints on bat surveys and current ecologist availability.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy CS11 of the Great Yarmouth Local Plan Core Strategy 2015Policy E3 of the Rollesby Neighbourhood Plan 2022LP Policies CS10 and E5

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

8 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 Great Yarmouth

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

Dismissed24 August 20266009413
Land to the West of 21 Hemsby Road, Adjacent to Ssaf Films, Martham, NR29 4WU
Allowed29 July 20266010562
Land Outside 3 Market Pl, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AX
Allowed29 July 20266010561
Land Outside 3 Market Pl, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2AX
Allowed13 July 20266005713
96 Links Road, Gorleston, NR31 6JX
Dismissed10 July 20266006943
37 Crown Road, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2JH

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.