Penny Lane Barn, Penny Lane, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 6JJ

Planning appeal 3368316 at Penny Lane Barn, Penny Lane, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 6JJ (Test Valley Borough Council) was dismissed on 8 December 2025 by Inspector Ramsden S, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the countryside.

for the change of use of land to residential, construction of retaining wall, steps, creation of access and associated hard and soft landscaping

Authority: Test Valley Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Ramsden S
Postcode: SO20 6JJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the countryside
Whether the appeal site is an appropriate location for the development having regard to local plan policies

What decided it

The large gravelled parking area extending outside the approved residential curtilage is visually intrusive and fails to meet the essentiality test required by Policy COM2b) for countryside development, with no evidence that such extensive car parking outside the curtilage is essential when an extant permission already provides for parking within the domestic curtilage.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy COM11Policy E1Policy E2Policy COM2Policy COM2aPolicy COM2b
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 57

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