®Planning appeal decision
To the West of, Dovaston, Shropshire, SY10 8DR
for single self-build dwelling with all matters reserved apart from access and scale
- Authority
- Shropshire County Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Watson S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the location of the appeal site is suitable for a new dwelling
- Whether a suitable mechanism to secure the proposal as a self-building dwelling has been provided
- Whether the proposal is exempt from biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements
What decided it
The proposal's location in open countryside outside development boundaries, requiring reliance on private motor vehicles and failing to meet any development plan exception, combined with the failure to secure an appropriate self-build mechanism and lack of biodiversity net gain information, meant the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits of housing delivery.
The modest benefits of providing one dwelling and temporary construction-phase economic benefit were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the proposal's conflict with the Council's spatial strategy, reliance on private motor vehicles, and failure to provide biodiversity net gain, resulting in dismissal.
Framework references: 11, 187
Plan policies cited: Policy CS1, Policy CS4, Policy CS5, Policy MD1, Policy MD3, Policy MD7a, Policy S14.2(vii)
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.