®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed4 March 20266002355
Southover Farm, Tolpuddle, Dorset, DT2 7HE
change of use & conversion of agricultural buildings to for 5no. dwellings (Use Class C3)
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Rose C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the location or siting of the building make it impractical or undesirable for the building to change to a dwellinghouse, with particular regard to whether the proposal would harm the living conditions of future occupiers with regard to noise, odour, contamination and disturbance
- flooding risks on the site
- the transport and highways impacts of the development
What decided it
The location and siting of the buildings in close proximity to a slurry lagoon, existing agricultural buildings, and a substantial farming enterprise, combined with insufficient technical evidence to demonstrate acceptable living conditions for future occupiers, makes the conversion undesirable under paragraph Q.2(1)(e) of Class Q of the GPDO.
Framework references: 135, 198
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