Land South Of Main Street Carlton Nuneaton Leicestershire

1. 1.The proposal would represent new residential development in an unsustainable location in the designated countryside. By virtue of its location, the proposal would exacerbate ribbon development and extend the urbanising-built form of Carlton in the designated open countryside. These factors would result in significant and permanent harm in principle to the rural character of the site, the surrounding area, and the intrinsic value, beauty, open character, and landscape character of the countryside, including to the Barton Village Farmlands Landscape Character Area, to which the site's character currently positively contributes to. The significant and permanent adverse impacts of the development in principle to the character of the area would be exacerbated by the visual prominence of the site from Barton Road and Nailstone Road to the east, and Public Footpath S77 and S68. As a result, the scheme would not be well designed and would fail to reflect local design policies and government guidance on design as a matter of principle. The proposal would therefore be contrary to, and in conflict with, Policies DM4 and DM10 of the adopted Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (2016), as well as Chapters 12, and 15 and Key Policy Paragraphs 129 and 135 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024). This harm would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the potential benefits of the scheme when assessed against the Framework as a whole. In accordance with Paragraph 139 of IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ THE NOTES AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT 25/01230/OUT Page 1 of 3 REOUTZ the National Planning Policy Framework, the development is refused.
2. 2.The development would be in an unsustainable location that fails to promote sustainable transport, the best use of public transport, nor provide any safe walking and cycling access to services and facilities. The future occupants of the scheme would therefore be highly likely to be dependent on private motorised transport to meet their day-to-day needs, and this would result in significant environmental harm. This is contrary to, and in conflict with, Policy DM17 of the adopted Site Allocations and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document (2016), HDM Policy 1 of the Leicestershire Highway Design Guide (2024), as well as Paragraphs 83, 115 and 161, Chapter 9, and the overarching ambitions of sustainable development defined at Paragraph 8 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024).

From the council's decision notice.

Application type

Outline Application

Scale / size

Small

Parish

Carlton Parish Council

Date validated

19 January 2026

Consultation expiry

17 March 2026

Neighbour consultation end

5 March 2026

Last date for comments

17 March 2026

Target decision date

16 March 2026

Agent

Mair Land & Planning Consultants

Agent address

49 Leaders Way Lutterworth LE17 4YS

Case officer

Sullevan Archer

Statutory period

56 days

Advertisement expiry

11 March 2026

Site notice end

17 March 2026

Planning Portal ID

PP-14567823

Documents

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