®Planning appeal decision
Borley Green Barn, Conduit Lane, Brent Pelham, Hertfordshire, SG9 0AJ
Construction of carbon neutral, self-build dwelling, together with erection of a detached garage building, creation of a new vehicular access, provision of a new driveway and associated landscaping works
- Authority
- East Hertfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Boughton A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed dwelling would be suitably located having regard to the locational policies of the development plan
- the effect of the proposal on rural character
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a Framework-compliant housing land supply combined with a deficiency of self-build plots in the District, which together engaged the tilted balance and made the benefits of providing even one self-build dwelling sufficient to outweigh the locational and character harms.
the harms arising from the proposed development, significantly mitigated by design and grouping with existing built form, were insufficient to significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of providing a self-build dwelling in circumstances of housing land supply shortfall and self-build plot deficiency
Framework references: 11, 84
Plan policies cited: Policy GBR2, Policy TRA1
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.