| 1. | The application contains no reasoned evidence that every attempt has been made to secure suitable commercial or other non-residential re-use of the building.
The ancillary storage building, which is located within the East and West Somerton Conservation Area and is the subject of the application, is particularly modest in size and forms part of the walled garden that served the principal (listed) building, i.e. Burnley Hall. It is not considered suitable for conversion to residential use as extensive alterations and extensions are proposed. Furthermore, its conversion to residential use with the associated paraphernalia of parked cars, washing lines, telecommunications equipment, sheds etc would impact negatively on the setting of Burnley Hall and the important hierarchy of estate buildings which contributes to its character. The assertion that the application site cannot easily be viewed from any public viewpoint due to heavy tree screening is misleading as 'Back Road' is shown on the Definitive Map of Public Rights of Way as a "Road used mainly as a public footpath". Such assertion does not, in any event, mitigate the detrimental effect the development would have on the character and setting of the listed building within the aforementioned Conservation Area.
For these reasons the proposal is considered to be contrary to Policies HOU11, BNV7, BNV10, BNV21 and NNV4 of the adopted Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Local Plan.
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