Appeal Dismissed! We won!

This is the email that we were absolutely thrilled to be able to send out to our database of supporters this week from the Wychavon Parishes Action Group (WPAG) Committee.

"You will no doubt be as delighted as we are at the news today that the Planning Inspectorate have Dismissed the Appeal to develop 4 chicken sheds by Edward Davies on land adjacent to Froghall Bungalow.

The unanimous verdict to refuse planning permission by Wychavon District Council on 12th September 2014 on the basis of Visual Impact on the Landscape has been upheld. 

This is a critical decision and will have major implications for other planning applications nearby and for similar developments in the planning stage in other parts of the UK.

We would like to thank everybody in the community for supporting our campaign - it would not have been possible without you.

For further information on the campaign and for links to the planning inspectorate document which are posted on the Wychavon Council Planning website please visit www.no-chicken-farm.org.

Thank you for your support!

So Mr Edward Davies can only develop two sheds at the location. 

The field which will only ever have at most two sheds on it - if any!

The implications are huge. Most importantly for those who would have been downwind of the site and for those who live next door to it or overlook it whose lives would have been forever changed. The Planning Inspector rightly determined that the presence of regimented enormous industrial units against the backdrop of productive fields and sheep farming with scattered settlements was just plain wrong.

This is the summary of the decision to Dismiss the Appeal -

"By virtue of its overall scale and extent, the proposals for the erection of four poultry units and associated ancillary works on this undeveloped rural site would have a harmful visual impact upon and would undermine the character, appearance and openness of the countryside. The harmful impacts would fail to be fully mitigated by any landscaping proposed. Such harm would not be outweighed by the economic benefits that the development would deliver. Therefore, the proposal does not represent sustainable development as defined in the National Planning Policy Framework. The proposal also fails to accord with adopted saved Wychavon District Local Plan (2006) Policies ENV1 and ECON7 and emerging South Worcestershire Development Plan Policy SWDP25." 

 

For links to the Planning Inspectorate decision on the Wychavon Website please click here.