®Planning appeal decision
Land Opposite Churchill House, Churchill Green, Churchill, North Somerset, BS25 5QH
create new opening for access, new bin store and cycle storage and parking area - change of use - two holiday lets to two dwellings
- Authority
- North Somerset Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Reeves K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether it has been sufficiently demonstrated that the appeal properties are not viable as holiday let units
- whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for permanent residential dwellings
What decided it
The failure to demonstrate that the holiday let business is unviable, combined with the site's unsustainable location outside the settlement boundary lacking safe access to services and facilities, means the proposal conflicts with the development plan and the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweigh the housing benefits.
The moderate housing benefit and limited social and economic benefits of two dwellings on brownfield land were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the unjustified loss of holiday letting and the inappropriate location of the site for permanent residential dwellings in an unsustainable rural location.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy DM57 of the Development Management Policies Sites and Policies Plan Part 1 (2016), Policy CS14 of the North Somerset Core Strategy (2017), Policy CS33 of the North Somerset Core Strategy (2017)
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.