Land at Pippins, 13 Burbage Road, Easton Royal, Pewsey, SN9 5LT

1. 1.The proposal is for outline planning permission to create one self-build dwelling with all matters reserved. The application site lies outside of the limits of development in the countryside where future occupiers would be reliant upon the private car. Under Core Policy 1 (Settlement Strategy), Core Policy 2 (Delivery Strategy), Core Policy 18 (Pewsey Community Area), Core Policy 60 (Sustainable Transport) and Core Policy 61 (Transport & Development) the development is not considered to be ‘infill’ development so does not comply with the Settlement and Delivery Strategies as a matter of principle. The Strategies are designed to ensure new developments satisfy the fundamental principles of sustainability, and so it follows that where a proposal such as this fails to comply with them then it will be unsustainable in this overarching context. The application site is not identified for development in a Site Allocations Development Plan Document, and it is not allocated in a Neighbourhood Plan document. Furthermore, there are no material considerations or exceptional circumstances, including set out in other policies of the Plan, which override the core policy's position. The proposal would therefore cause unacceptable harm to the environmental and social objectives of the area and is, therefore, contrary to Core Policies 1, 2, 18, 60 and 61 of the adopted Wiltshire Core Strategy and paragraphs 2, 7-15, and 47 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), comprising unsustainable development.
2. 2.The prevailing character in this part of the settlement is two-storey detached properties, occupying generous plots and set back from the highway. The site is a modest sized plot and the proposed dwelling would be sited forward of an existing dwelling resulting in a plot with dwellings in a tandem formation. By virtue of the siting of the proposed dwelling forward of the existing dwelling within a modest sized plot, it would fail to respect the prevailing character and form of the settlement area and would appear as a cramped form of development, resulting in unacceptable harm upon the visual amenities of the site and to the existing street scene, contrary to Core Policy 57 of the adopted Wiltshire Core Policy and the social and environmental objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework (taken as a whole).
3. 3.By virtue of the close proximity of the proposed dwelling to neighbouring properties to the east and south, it would result in an unneighbourly form of development that would be expected to give rise to an unacceptable harm to neighbouring residential amenities contrary to Core Policy 57(vii) of the adopted Wiltshire Core Strategy and the social and environmental objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework (taken as a whole).

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

SN9 5LT

Application type

Outline planning permission: All matters reserved

Scale / size

Medium

Parish

Easton CP

Date validated

30 August 2024

Consultation expiry

27 September 2024

Consultation end

27 September 2024

Target decision date

11 November 2024

Statutory period

73 days

Documents

19