LILLYS COTTAGE (Land adjacent Khandala), SALISBURY ROAD, BURGATE, FORDINGBRIDGE SP6 1LX

1. 1.The application site is part of the former and historic curtilage of the adjacent Grade II Listed Building 'The Hourglass' (formerly Khandala/Surma Valley). The proposed subdivision of the plot to accommodate three new dwellings and associated driveways and parking areas, would represent an overdevelopment of the site and an unsympathetic intensity and form of development in this sensitive historic context. Specifically, it is considered that the introduction of multiple dwellings on the plot, being surrounded by large areas for vehicular access (particularly House 2 and Lilly's Cottage), and also the proliferation of hard surfacing within the existing plot, would combine to represent a harsh, intrusive and incongruous form of development that would harmfully erode the open setting of the adjacent listed building, as well as being harmfully at odds with the spatial characteristics and setting of the wider area. Moreover, the proposed dwellings would be of an unsympathetic appearance in this sensitive historic context and would appear as a poorly designed group of buildings in this historic setting, with an unsympathetic site layout, whereby House 2 would appear too dominant in the streetscene relative to the adjacent Listed Building, whilst House 1 and Lilly's Cottage and their respective amenity spaces would relate poorly to the important protected trees on site, with a poor site layout. The intensive redevelopment of the land would also fail to respect the existing constraints of the site in terms of material changes in site levels. For these reasons, the proposal would be harmful to the setting of the adjacent Listed Building and would fail to respond positively to the existing local distinctiveness of the surrounding area with regard to the existing pattern of development and its landscape character. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Policies Strategic Site 18, ENV3 and ENV4 of the Local Plan 2016-2036 Part 1: Planning Strategy 2020, Policy DM1 of the Local Plan Part Two for the New Forest outside of the National Park and the provisions of Chapters 12 and 16 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024).
2. 2.By reason of the close proximity of the proposed dwellings (particularly House 1 and Lilly's Cottage) to the trees on the site, which are subject to Tree Preservation Order 26/10407 0042/17, the proposed development would be likely to detrimentally impact upon the health and long term survival of this important tree belt (G4) and remaining TPOs T5, T6, T7 and G8 . In particular, G4, T5 and T6 would overhang and shade proposed House 1 and its garden and G4 and T7 would overhang and shade the garden of Lily's Cottage to a degree where there would then be likely to be significant and undue pressures from future occupants of both dwellings to excessively prune or fell these trees. The likely future erosion or loss of this important tree belt (G4) and the remainder of the protected trees on the site including T5, T6, T7 and G8, would adversely impact upon the street scene and the visual amenities of the area, with resultant detrimental impacts upon the public amenity and the character of the area. As such, the proposal would be contrary to Policies ENV3 and ENV4 of the Local Plan 2016-2036 Part One: Planning Strategy for the New Forest District outside of the National Park.
3. 3.The proposed house at Lilly's Cottage would provide unacceptably poor levels of amenity and privacy for future occupants as the dwelling as its rear patio and garden amenity space would be harmfully overlooked by nos. 28 & 30 Kingfisher Drive. As such, the proposal would be contrary to the amenity-related provisions of Policies ENV3 of the Local Plan 2016-2036 Part 1: Planning Strategy 2020 and the provisions of Chapter 12 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2024).
4. 4.The recreational and air quality impacts of the proposed development on the New Forest Special Area of Conservation, the New Forest Special Protection Area, the New Forest Ramsar site, the Dorset Heathlands Special Protection Area and the Dorset Heaths Special Area of Conservation, would not be adequately mitigated and the proposed development would therefore be likely to unacceptably increase recreational pressures or potential air quality impacts on these sensitive European nature conservation sites, contrary to Policy ENV1 of the Local Plan 2016-2036 Part One: Planning Strategy for the New Forest District outside the National Park and the New Forest District Council Mitigation Strategy for European Sites Supplementary Planning Document.

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

SP6 1LX

Application type

Full Planning Permission

Scale / size

Small

Parish

Fordingbridge

Date validated

28 April 2026

Consultation expiry

29 May 2026

Consultation start

30 April 2026

Consultation end

29 May 2026

Target decision date

23 June 2026

Agent

Spruce Town Planning Ltd

Agent address

Office 9, Fleming Court Business Centre, Leigh Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9PD

Planning Portal ID

PP-14776124

Documents

42