Greenacres Caravan Park Ltd Low Road Dovercourt Harwich Essex CO12 3TS

1. 1.The proposal, by virtue of its scale, siting and commercial appearance would introduce a prominent and visually intrusive feature within a predominantly residential street scene. The use of the caravan park is not readily apparent from the street scene and as a result reads as a predominantly residential frontage. The proposed flags would result in a harmful sense of visual clutter and commercialisation that would appear incongruous against the backdrop of a residential setting. Further, owing to the proximity of the proposed flags to the neighbouring dwellings known as La Querencia and 45 St Dennis Close, the movement and intermittent flapping of the flags have the potential to generate intermittent noise and disturbance harming the amenity enjoyed by neighbouring occupiers. Therefore, the proposal would fail to respond positively to its context and surroundings resulting in unacceptable harm to visual amenity and character of the area and residential amenity, contrary to policy SPL3 of the adopted local plan and policies L2.1(ii), P3 and DP3 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2026).

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

CO12 3TS

Application type

Advertising

Scale / size

Small

Date validated

25 June 2026