®Planning appeal decision
Penny Lane Barn, Penny Lane, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 6JJ
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
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.
Framework references: 57
Plan policies cited: Policy COM11, Policy E1, Policy E2, Policy COM2, Policy COM2a, Policy COM2b
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