®Planning appeal decision
Dorset Lake Manor, 155 Sandbanks Road, Bournemouth Christchurch Poole, Poole, BH14 8EL
to extend the existing first floor of the rear building to create a 2 bedroom, 3 persons self-contained flat is being submitted. The proposal will provide a high quality and interesting new home to Poole
- Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Aqbal M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal represents an acceptable form of development having regard to flood risk
What decided it
The updated flood-risk mapping showing the entire appeal site within future Flood Zone 3a, combined with the failure to undertake a Sequential Test and the absence of demonstrated safe mitigation, means the proposal cannot be made safe for its lifetime and conflicts with flood-risk protection policies that engage the Footnote 7 exception to the tilted balance.
The benefits of delivering an additional dwelling and supporting housing land supply were afforded only limited weight because the development would be susceptible to flood risk; these limited benefits do not outweigh the identified harm and conflict with the development plan
Framework references: 11, 170, 175
Plan policies cited: Policy PP32, Policy PP39, Policy PP38
Judgments cited: Wathen-Fayed v Secretary of State (2023)
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.