Change of use of part of field 424837 to extend the residential curtilage of five dwellings (retrospective)

General Policy 2

Requires general development standards including protection of visual amenity, landscape features. Officer assessed proposal meets these tests as it causes no harm to character/appearance of site/surrounding area, key views unaffected, and no visual/practical harm from small-scale extensions.

Environment Policy 1

Protects countryside from adverse effects unless overriding national need. At face value conflicted as no GP3 exception or national need, but officer found no adverse effect due to invisibility from public views, small scale, no erosion of countryside openness or rural character.

Environment Policy 14

Protects high quality agricultural land from loss. Land is Class 3/2 (lower classification); small proportion lost (314.5 sqm of field), no visual/amenity harms, does not unacceptably erode agricultural land or undermine rural economy.

General Policy 3

Exceptions to countryside development. None apply here, leading to prima facie conflict, but outweighed by absence of harm in scale, visual impact, and alignment with local plot patterns.

Strategic Policy 4

Protect and enhance landscape and nature conservation value. No harm to landscape from small projection, not visible publicly, no impeded distant views south.

Spatial Policy 5

Directs development to settlements, countryside per GP3. Similar to GP3/EP1 assessment; no unacceptable visual impact on rural character or built-countryside interface.