®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed15 July 20253362916
Land at Elm Farm, Elmore, Gloucester, GL2 3NT
change of use from agricultural land to a dog exercising paddock
- Authority
- Stroud District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Townend K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal is in an appropriate location for the intended use, having regard to the development strategy for the area, including whether the appeal proposal is justified as a farm diversification scheme
- Whether the appeal site is suitably located in relation to settlements, the accessibility of the site for future users, and the effect of the development on highway safety
What decided it
The proposal fails both the locational test under the development strategy (not justified as essential farm diversification and not in an appropriate location) and the highway safety test (inappropriate traffic generation on a narrow lane with inadequate visibility and parking).
Plan policies cited: Policy CP15, Policy E15, Policy EI12, Policy ES3(5)
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.