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Allowed5 November 20253368733

Holbrook Dairy Farm, Berryfield Lane, Melksham, SN12 6EH

Planning appeal 3368733 at Holbrook Dairy Farm, Berryfield Lane, Melksham, SN12 6EH (Wiltshire Council) was allowed on 5 November 2025 by Inspector Pickernell E, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the location and siting of the building makes it undesirable for it to change to a dwellinghouse, in terms of the living conditions of future occupiers with particular regard to noise and odour.

Agricultural barn conversion to single dwelling

Authority
Wiltshire Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Other minor developments
Inspector
Pickernell E
Postcode
SN12 6EH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the location and siting of the building makes it undesirable for it to change to a dwellinghouse, in terms of the living conditions of future occupiers with particular regard to noise and odour

What decided it

The generous degree of spatial separation between the appeal building and the various agricultural uses on the farm, combined with the relatively small scale of the agricultural enterprise, meant that noise and odour would not result in harmful living conditions making conversion undesirable.

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