DECISION: 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 is hereby permitted in accordance with the following approved plans/details:

Site location plan, Drawing No. CL-CVS-1000B, dated May 2019.

Block Plan, Drawing No. CL-CVS-1100A, dated May 2019.

Site plan, Drawing No. CL-CVS-1200, dated May 2019.

Plans and elevations 1, Drawing No. CL-CVS-2000, dated May 2019.

Plans and elevations 2, Drawing No. CL-CVS-2010, dated May 2019.

Reason: For the avoidance of doubt and in the interests of proper planning, as advised in Planning Practice Guidance Paragraph: 022 Reference ID: 21a-022-20140306.

3.         The stables and storage buildings hereby permitted shall be used for private equestrian/recreational purposes only and not for any commercial riding, livery use, breeding, training or other business use.

Reason: In the interests of highway safety, to protect the residential amenities of the locality, and to protect the character of the countryside in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) area, in accordance with Policies OSS4 (ii and iii), RA2 (viii), RA3 (v), and EN1 of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy 2014 and DaSA Policy DC02.

4.         No floodlighting or other external means of illumination of the stables/storage buildings hereby permitted shall be provided, installed or operated at the site.

Reason: To protect the residential amenities of the locality and to protect the special character and dark night skies of the rural area within the High Weald AONB, in accordance with Policies OSS4 (ii and iii), RA2 (viii), RA3 (v) and EN1 (v and vii) of the Rother Local Plan Core Strategy and Development and Site Allocations Policy DC02.

5.         No more than three horses shall be kept on the site as outlined in green on the approved plan, drawing no. CL-SVS-1000B, dated May 2019, and no animals other than horses shall be kept on the site.

Reason: To control further development and restrict an intensification of the use of the land in the interests of the character and amenities of the area within the High Weald AONB, in accordance with Policies OSS4 (iii) Rother Local Plan Core Strategy.

6.         The use hereby permitted shall be carried out only by Ms Sam Swift only.

Reason: To control further development and in the interests of the character and amenities of the area within the High Weald AONB, in accordance with Policies OSS4 (iii) Rother Local Plan Core Strategy.

7.         When the use hereby approved ceases the buildings and hard standing also hereby approved shall be removed from the land and the land restored to its condition before the development took place.

Reason: In the interests of the character and amenities of the area within the High Weald AONB, in accordance with Policies OSS4 (iii) Rother Local Plan Core Strategy.

NOTE:

1.         The applicant is advised that domestication or suburbanisation of the site, such as manicured grass cutting or the placement potted planting, should not be undertaken. This is not consistent with the character of the rural area and could result in an unauthorised change of use of the land subject to enforcement action without further warning.

NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK:  In accordance with the requirements of the Framework (paragraphs 186 and 187) 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 this matter in so far as her husband was Chairman of the local Campaign to Protect Rural England who made comments on the application and in accordance with the Members’ Code of Conduct remained in the room during the consideration thereof).