| 1. | The proposal seeks the erection of a large, utilitarian looking building within the open countryside. The proposal would fail to read as a stable block due to its unsympathetic bulk, design and use of inappropriate materials, and due to its excessive scale and the use of a large hardstanding area and access drive, and as such would therefore appear more akin to a standalone agricultural storage building with curtilage rather than a field shelter or stabling barn ancillary to use of the paddock. This is not considered to be appropriate and would have an adverse impact on the surrounding landscape due to the conflict it creates within the context in which the building would be read, and due to the excessive nature of the scale of the building being incompatible with its open countryside setting.
Furthermore, the scale and form of the building, and the associated hardstanding combine to erode the character of the area and the approach to and setting of the Broads protected area equivalent to national park designation.
The proposal is therefore in conflict with the Great Yarmouth Local Plan Core Strategy (2015) Policies CS09 and CS11, and Great Yarmouth Local Plan Part 2 (2021) Policy L3 B and L3 C, together with Paragraphs 130 and 176 of the NPPF, and there are no material considerations presented which are able to outweigh this conflict of proposed design and existing landscape value, and refusing the application is therefore consistent with paragraph 134 of the National Planning Policy Framework (2021). |
