Great Yarmouth Borough Council

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1.	Policy REC13 of the Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Local Plan states that in determining planning applications for developments involving outdoor sporting activities that use motor vehicles or other mechanical devices, including firearms, the Council will require an applicant to demonstrate that the proposed use or activities would not: (a) generate significant levels of noise or disturbance which would erode the amenities of persons residing in the vicinity of the site or adjoining landowners or significantly adversely affect any site of acknowledged nature conservation importance; and, (b) cause significant levels of pollution or damage within the site. The motorbike track was granted a temporary planning permission in 2012 to enable the effects of the use on the surrounding area to be monitored. The temporary use of the site as a motorbike track has led to complaints about noise and it is therefore considered that the continued use of the track would be contrary to criterion (a) of Policy REC13 in that the temporary use has generated a significant level of noise and disturbance which has had an adverse effect on the amenities of nearby residents.
2.	STATEMENT OF POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT (REFUSALS): In accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework, in determining this application for planning permission, the Borough Council has approached it in a positive and proactive way and where possible has sought solutions to problems to achieve the aim of approving sustainable development. Unfortunately, despite this, in this particular case the development is not considered to represent a sustainable or an acceptable form of development and has been refused for the reasons set out above.

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Policy REC13 of the Great Yarmouth Borough-Wide Local Plan states that in determining planning applications for developments involving outdoor sporting activities that use motor vehicles or other mechanical devices, including firearms, the Council will require an applicant to demonstrate that the proposed use or activities would not: (a) generate significant levels of noise or disturbance which would erode the amenities of persons residing in the vicinity of the site or adjoining landowners or significantly adversely affect any site of acknowledged nature conservation importance; and, (b) cause significant levels of pollution or damage within the site. The motorbike track was granted a temporary planning permission in 2012 to enable the effects of the use on the surrounding area to be monitored. The temporary use of the site as a motorbike track has led to complaints about noise and it is therefore considered that the continued use of the track would be contrary to criterion (a) of Policy REC13 in that the temporary use has generated a significant level of noise and disturbance which has had an adverse effect on the amenities of nearby residents.

STATEMENT OF POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT (REFUSALS): In accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework, in determining this application for planning permission, the Borough Council has approached it in a positive and proactive way and where possible has sought solutions to problems to achieve the aim of approving sustainable development. Unfortunately, despite this, in this particular case the development is not considered to represent a sustainable or an acceptable form of development and has been refused for the reasons set out above.