®Planning appeal decision
YEW TREE HOUSE, YEW TREE LANE, ROTHERFIELD, EAST SUSSEX, TN6 3QP
conversion of existing barn to 3 bed dwelling with associated external alterations, access, parking and landscaping
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Holden S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed barn conversion would conserve and enhance the landscape and scenic beauty of the High Weald National Landscape (HWNL)
- The effect of the proposed conversion on the setting of Yew Tree House, a Grade II listed building
- Whether the site is a suitable location for an additional dwelling having regard to local and national planning policy for the delivery of housing
What decided it
The significant harm to the High Weald National Landscape and the setting of the Grade II listed building Yew Tree House, which provides strong reasons for refusal under footnote 7 to paragraph 11 of the Framework, outweighs the benefit of a single dwelling despite the Council's housing land supply shortfall.
The limited benefits of a single dwelling would not outweigh the collective harms to a protected landscape, a designated heritage asset, and the strategic aims of the Local Plan to locate new homes in or near existing settlements with genuine choice of travel mode.
Framework references: 189, 215, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy DC8, Policy DC17, Policy GD2, Policy EN6, Policy EN27, Spatial Planning Objective SPO7
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.