DECISION: It be RESOLVED to GRANT (FULL PLANNING)

CONDITIONS:

1.   The development hereby permitted shall be begun before the expiration of three years from the date of this permission.

Reason: In accordance with section 91 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended by section 51 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004). 

2.   The development hereby permitted shall be carried out in accordance with the following approved plans described as:   

      6236/19/10/LP/B, dated September 20  

6236/19/10/2/D, dated September 20  

6236/19/10/1/C, dated December 20  

6236/10/3, dated October 2020  

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning. 

3.   The materials to be used in the construction of the development hereby permitted shall be as described within the application, with bricks to match the existing buildings, timber left to weather naturally and roof sheeting to reflect the natural colours of grey/green as set out in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Colour Study unless otherwise agreed in writing by the local planning authority. 

Reason: To maintain the characteristics of the existing farmyard buildings and its appearance within the High Weald AONB in accordance with Policies OSS4 (iii), EN1 (i) of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy (2014) and Policies DEN1 and DEN2 of the Development and Site Allocations Local Plan (2019). 

4.   The building hereby permitted shall only be used for the purposes of storage associated with agriculture and/or forestry, as defined in Section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and for the storage of hay for use with the Applicant’s equestrian business and for no other purpose.

Reason: To ensure that only buildings essential to the running of an agricultural unit and associated rural business on the site are provided in the countryside in accordance with Policies RA2 and RA3 of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy

5.    All hard and soft landscape works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved details. The works shall be carried out prior to the occupation of any part of the barn development or in accordance with the programme agreed with the local planning authority and if within a period of five years from the date of the planting any tree or plant is removed, uprooted, destroyed or dies, [or becomes, in the opinion of the local planning authority, seriously damaged or defective] another tree or plant of the same species and size as that originally planted shall be planted at the same place, unless the local planning authority gives its written consent to any variation.

Reason: To maintain the visual amenities of the surrounding area in accordance with Policies OSS4 (iii) and EN1 (i) of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy (2014) and Policies DEN1 and DEN2 of the Development and Site Allocations Local Plan (2019).

6.   No floodlighting or other external means of illumination of the barn shall be provided, installed or operated at the site without a further planning permission. 

Reason: To safeguard the special character of the rural area within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in accordance withPolicies OSS4 (iii) and EN1 of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy (2014) and Policies DEN1 and DEN2 of the Rother Development and Site Allocations Local Plan (2019).

NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK: In accordance with the requirements of the National Planning Policy Framework (paragraph 38) and with the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, the Local Planning Authority has acted positively and proactively in determining this application by identifying matters of concern within the application (as originally submitted) and negotiating, with the Applicant, acceptable amendments to the proposal to address those concerns. As a result, the Local Planning Authority has been able to grant planning permission for an acceptable proposal, in accordance with the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out within the National Planning Policy Framework. 

(Councillor Prochak declared a Personal Interest in so far as her husband was Chairman of the local Campaign to Protect Rural England who made comments on the application and she was acquainted with an objector to the application as they had worked on the “REMAIN Campaign” and in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct remained in the meeting during the consideration thereof).