®Planning appeal decision
Valentines Farm Rose Lane, Ripley, WOKING, GU23 6NE
change of use of the land for external open storage
- Authority
- Guildford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wallace J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- highway safety
- character and appearance of the area
- designated heritage assets
- living conditions of surrounding occupiers with respect to noise and disturbance
- protected species (Appeal A only)
What decided it
For Appeal A, the inability to demonstrate that the small site could accommodate open storage, parking, turning and servicing space without adversely affecting highway safety given its position adjacent to the access for the wider site. For Appeal B, the acceptability of restricting open storage to the concrete hardstanding for existing occupiers, which would not generate significant additional vehicle movements or other material harm.
Appeal A: no balancing exercise undertaken as the proposal conflicted with the development plan with no material considerations of sufficient weight to indicate otherwise. Appeal B: the benefits of enabling employment use with restricted open storage outweighed any limited concerns, subject to conditions controlling hours, height, noise mitigation and parking provision.
Framework references: 118, 109, 155, 154
Plan policies cited: GBSS Policy ID3, GBSS Policy E5, GBSS Policy D1, GBSS Policy D3, GBSS Policy ID4, GBDMP Policy D4, GBDMP Policy D5, GBDMP Policy D11, GBDMP Policy D18, GBDMP Policy D19, GBDMP Policy D20, GBDMP Policy P6, Lovelace Neighbourhood Plan LNPBE1
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.