Highbridge Farm, Highbridge Road, Highbridge, Hampshire, SO50 6HN

Planning appeal 3347988 at Highbridge Farm, Highbridge Road, Highbridge, Hampshire, SO50 6HN (Winchester City Council) was allowed on 8 January 2025 by Inspector Cahalane R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the location and siting of the building makes it undesirable for the building to change to a dwellinghouse, in terms of noisy activities generated by existing businesses adjacent to the site and its effect on the living conditions of future occupiers of the proposed dwellinghouse.

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Authority: Winchester City Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Cahalane R
Postcode: SO50 6HN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the location and siting of the building makes it undesirable for the building to change to a dwellinghouse, in terms of noisy activities generated by existing businesses adjacent to the site and its effect on the living conditions of future occupiers of the proposed dwellinghouse

What decided it

The submission of a comprehensive Noise Impact Assessment with feasible mitigation measures that could be secured by planning conditions to protect future occupiers from noise impacts, combined with the Council's Environmental Health Officer's confirmation that the mitigation was effective.

What the Inspector cited

National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 57

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