Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent to The Pearl Building, Lynch Wood, Lynch Wood Business Park, Peterborough, PE2 6FY
Planning appeal 3368017 at Land Adjacent to The Pearl Building, Lynch Wood, Lynch Wood Business Park, Peterborough, PE2 6FY (Peterborough City Council) was dismissed on 22 May 2026 by Inspector Brownless E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the developments on highway safety.
‘temporary change of use of land for storage of motor vehicles (sui generis)’
- Authority
- Peterborough City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Brownless E
- Postcode
- PE2 6FY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the developments on highway safety
- Whether the proposed developments provide adequate living conditions for neighbouring occupiers with particular regard to noise and disturbance
What decided it
The unacceptable impacts on highway and pedestrian safety arising from car transporter movements at a constrained access point with a pedestrian refuge island, combined with unmitigable noise and disturbance to neighbouring occupiers, were decisive in dismissing the appeal.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- LP13LP17
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 116Paragraph 187
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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