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Allowed11 April 20253358016

Brewery Farm, Ansty, Dorchester, DT2 7PN

Planning appeal 3358016 at Brewery Farm, Ansty, Dorchester, DT2 7PN (Dorset) was allowed on 11 April 2025 by Inspector Rose C, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether there is an essential need for a second dwelling to accommodate a rural worker living permanently at the appeal site.

the construction of a rural workers dwelling (as part of this

Authority
Dorset
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
agricultural · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Rose C
Postcode
DT2 7PN

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether there is an essential need for a second dwelling to accommodate a rural worker living permanently at the appeal site
  • The effect of the proposed development on the integrity of the Poole Harbour Special Protection Area and Ramsar Site with particular regard to the discharge of nitrates

What decided it

The Inspector was persuaded that the combined and growing demands of the family enterprise, together with the succession planning process, demonstrated an essential functional need for a rural worker to live permanently at the site that could not be met by other means.

Having found the essential need for the dwelling demonstrated and the SPA nutrient impacts fully mitigated through the UU and a water-use condition, the proposal accorded with the development plan and the Framework and the appeal was allowed with no countervailing harm identified.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
LP Policy 1LP Policy 2LP Policy 4LP Policy 20LP Policy 33
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 84Paragraph 189

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