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No.Condition Text
1.The application site is outside any area defined in the adopted Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Local Plan where residential development might be permitted. Outside these defined areas Policy HOU10 of the Plan only permits the erection of a new dwellings if they are required in connection with either agriculture, forestry, organised recreation or the expansion of an existing institution. In such cases it must be demonstrated that the new dwellings are essential in the interests of agriculture or good management and the proposal must have the support of a suitably qualified independent appraisor. No evidence has been put forward in support of the application to satisfy the requirements of the policy the objective of which is to prevent unjustified development in the countryside.
2.The application site is within an area identified on the South West Area Proposals Map of the Borough-Wide Local Plan as being "landscape important to the Broadland Scene" being close to the Broads Authority Executive Area - which has National Park status. Policy NNV2 of the Local Plan seeks to protect such areas from development that would have a significant adverse impact on the landscape character and traditional built form of the area, or destroy or damage features of landscape importance which contribute to the character of the area. In this instance the erection of dwellings on the application site would constitute a significant encroachment of residential development and urban form into the rural area between Belton and the unspoilt Broads marshes to the detriment of the landscape character of the area.