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V26-1424 : W5346/5 - LAND NEXT TO KESTREL HOUSE, PARADISE ROW, WESTON

Application for use of land as a lorry park, and application to vary Condition No. 3 on decision notice W5346/2 restricting the number and type of vehicles parked.

The report of the Director of Planning and Building Control advised that one resident had objected to the above application on grounds of the poor surface of the bridleway/access track due to the passage of heavy lorries. Paradise Row was an isolated group of six houses, with a seventh house standing on a larger plot at the far end of the short track, which was occupied by the applicant. In front of his house was a hard surfaced area used as a lorry park, with access along the track.

Condition No. 3 on decision W5346/2 required that the number of vehicles was limited to three four-ton lorries and one transit pick-up. The applicant had advised that he now operated five lorries, one articulated tractor unit and one large pick-up truck, and sought retrospective permission for the change.

The Director felt that the current level of use was much greater than the approved use and was out of scale with the character of its setting. The six dwellings which faced the access track were within ten metres of passing lorries, and their front gardens had no privacy as a result. The appearance of the open countryside was also harmed. The applicant's house and garden contained several uses which went beyond the normal domestic purposes of a single household, and the proposed haulage business was considered to be an unacceptable addition to this.

The Director recommended refusal due to non-compliance with policy, effect on landscape and open countryside, residential amenity and road safety. He also recommended that enforcement action be taken, but in a manner which gave the applicant a reasonable period of time to find alternative premises for his business, and also that the applicant be reassured that the Council wished to encourage his haulage business, but not at this location.

RESOLVED

That planning permission be refused to application W5346/5, and that the Chief Executive be authorised to serve Breach of Condition and/or Enforcement Notices and to take all pursuant action to ensure the cessation of the use as a haulage business of land next to Kestrel House, Paradise Row, Weston, but that the applicant be given a reasonable period of time to find alternative premises for his business.

Volume 26 Minute 1424

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