Appeal 3314090
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Official decision document
The decision, section by section
6 sections
Read the development description and the Inspector’s text from the official decision PDF in source order. Source headings are retained where available. Personal and contact details are removed by an automated privacy filter; this is source material, not Rules for You analysis.
Section 01
Development description
erection of a car port.
Section 02
Decision
The appeal is dismissed.
Section 03
Procedural Matters
The Council changed the description of development from that stated on the application form in the interests of clarity. I consider that the amended description accurately describes the appeal scheme and accordingly I have adopted the amended description in the heading above.
Section 04
Main Issue
The main issue in this appeal is the effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the area of the area and the appeal site itself which is a non-designated heritage asset.
Section 05
Reasons
The site is a detached property, a converted barn in a rural area. The Council have confirmed that the property possesses visual and historic interest due to being illustrative of early 19th century agricultural practices in a very rural part of the district which is reflected by its uses of traditional materials and form and is a non-designated heritage asset. I have no substantive evidence to disagree with the Council.
The car port is open in terms of design on an area used for parking vehicles. The proposed development would introduce a substantial built form in front of the existing property adjacent a low stone wall bounding [address].
The proposed development would be screened to a degree by established landscaping when travelling west to east along [address]. Notwithstanding this the site has an open setting which is obvious from outside the site and when travelling east to west along [address]. The proposed development would be prominent and out of keeping with the area in general.
The proposed development would be an unsympathetic addition to the area which would impede the open setting of the appeal site. I conclude that the proposed development would harm the character and appearance of the area and the open setting of the appeal site itself which is a non-designated heritage asset.
There is conflict with Policies DM29, DM41 and DM46 of the A Local Plan for Lancaster District 2011-2031, [name]: Review of Development Management DPD(2020) which seek amongst other things to ensure development is of a good standard of design contributing positively to the character of an area and be designed sympathetically to any non-designated heritage asset.
There is conflict with the National Planning Policy Framework (2021) which seeks amongst other things to ensure developments are of good design appropriate and sympathetic to their surroundings and that non-designated heritage assets are protected as appropriate.
Section 06
Conclusion
For the above reasons I conclude that this appeal should be dismissed.
Planning inspector and document dates
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Appeal Decision
- Extracted inspector · page 1
- Inspector attribution ID 126No official casework-database value to compare
- Extracted decision date · page 1
- 24 March 2023Matches the official casework database
- Extracted site visit dates
- 2 March 2023 (page 1)
Reference and authority
Official identifiers and the planning authority recorded against this case.
- Case reference
- 3314090
- Application reference
- 22/00771/FUK
- Lead case reference
- Not recorded
- Planning authority
- Lancaster City Council
- Planning authority code
- E07000121
Casework details
The casework, procedure, development and linking details supplied by the official record.
- Casework type
- Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development type
- Householder developments
- Appeal type reason
- 1. Refused planning permission
- Appeal reason
- Refusal
- Type detail
- Planning Appeals - Full
- Jurisdiction
- Transferred
- Link status
- Not Linked
Site and development
Published appeal-site measurements and planning designations, without the withheld precise location fields.
- Site area
- Not recorded
- Floor space
- 56 m²
- Number of residences
- 0
- Site in Green Belt
- No
- Agricultural holding
- No
- Affects setting of a listed building
- Not recorded
- Historic building grant made
- Not recorded
- Relates to a conservation area
- Not recorded
- Flooding is an issue
- Not recorded
- Site within an AONB
- Not recorded
- Site within an SSSI
- Not recorded
Decision and dates
The published outcome and every imported case date.
- Official decision
- Dismissed
- Decision category
- Dismissed
- Received date
- 4 January 2023
- Valid date
- 4 January 2023
- Start date
- 2 February 2023
- Planning authority decision date
- 7 November 2022
- Appeal decision date
- 24 March 2023
Case administration
Published recovery, call-in, costs and enforcement information for this case.
- Redetermined
- No
- Bespoke
- No
- Date recovered
- Not recorded
- Date not recovered or derecovered
- Not recorded
- Call-in date
- Not recorded
- Costs applied for
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds count
- Not recorded
- Enforcement grounds
- Not recorded
Source and catalogue history
When this record appeared in the rolling official release and when the catalogue stored it.
- Source
- Planning Inspectorate casework database
- Source data system
- Horizon
- Dataset status
- Current release
- Catalogue record ID
- 30228
- First seen
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Last seen
- 20 August 2026 at 16:26
- Removed from release
- Not recorded
- Record created
- 20 August 2026 at 14:24
- Record updated
- 24 August 2026 at 16:21