®Planning appeal decision
Bromley Hayes Garden Centre, Shaw Lane, Rileyhill, LICHFIELD, WS13 8HW
for the proposed demolition of the existing building consisting of a retail garden centre (Class E) to facilitate the redevelopment of the site to provide a mixed use of offices, plant storage and ancillary industrial and Research and Development uses (Resubmission of Planning Application 22/01126/FULM)
- Authority
- Lichfield District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Minor offices/R&D/light industry
- Inspector
- Plenty B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the surrounding area, including the effect on trees
- The effect of the proposal on the living conditions of adjacent residential occupiers of the marina, with particular respect to noise
- Whether the proposal would result in adverse flood risk effects
What decided it
The harm to character and appearance of the area, particularly the rural character of the site through the scale and height of proposed buildings, extensive hardstanding, and loss of mature tree cover, outweighed the modest socioeconomic and environmental benefits of the proposal.
Plan policies cited: Core Policy 1, Core Policy 3, Policy NR1, Policy BE1, Policy NR4, CP3
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