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Allowed5 December 20253369499

Higher Ponchydown Farm, Blackborough, Cullompton, EX15 2HE

Planning appeal 3369499 at Higher Ponchydown Farm, Blackborough, Cullompton, EX15 2HE (East Devon District Council) was allowed on 5 December 2025 by Inspector Kent R, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether there is an essential need for a second dwelling to accommodate a rural worker.

Retrospective siting of a temporary agricultural workers dwelling

Authority
East Devon District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
agricultural · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Kent R
Postcode
EX15 2HE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether there is an essential need for a second dwelling to accommodate a rural worker
  • whether the site is in a suitable location having regard to the development plan policies concerned with the location of new housing, including the effect of the development on the Blackdown Hills National Landscape

What decided it

The compelling evidence of animal welfare and worker safety risks from night-time calving and early morning milking established an essential agricultural need for a resident second worker, and no landscape or locational harm was found to weigh against this.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy H4Strategy 7Strategy 46Strategy 5BPolicy TC2

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