| No. | Condition Text |
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| 1. | The application site is located outside of the development limits, within the countryside and is remote from local service centre provision conflicting with the aims of sustainable development, the need to minimise travel, and the ability to encourage walking, cycling, use of public transport and reduce the reliance on the private car as represented in national and local policy. The application is therefore contrary to Core Strategy (2015) Policies CS1 and CS2 and Local Plan Part 2 (2021) Policy GSP1, Chapter 5 of Norfolk's Local Transport Plan 4 Strategy 2021-2036 and National Planning Policy Framework (December 2023) Section 2. |
| 2. | The application site is located outside of the development limits, within the countryside and is remote from local service centre provision and the application proposes an increase in intensity of the use of the site and would provide a form of accommodation that cannot be considered to be small in scale or operation and would require the employment of 10 members of staff. This goes beyond the form of accommodation which policies CS8 and L2 consider acceptable outside of the development limits in such a rural location. Moreover, the proposed hotel use is considered to be a main town centre use and the application is not supported by a sequential test to demonstrate that the application site is a suitable location for the proposed use as required by policy R1. The application is therefore considered to be contrary to Core Strategy (2015) Policies UCS7, CS8 and Local Plan Part 2 (2021) Policies L2 and R1 and with the requirements of National Planning Policy Framework (December 2023) paragraphs 88 and 89. |
| 3. | Due to the increased intensity of the use of the site, additional parking is proposed to accommodate the additional staff and visitor vehicles. Details of surfacing of this parking area and any boundary treatments have not been provided as part of this application. This parking area would be within one of the key views included within the Filby Neighbourhood Plan (2022) and the use of this area as car park would have an urbanising impact and a detrimental affect on the landscape character and on the key view westwards towards Filby which is currently undeveloped open countryside. The proposal would therefore be contrary to Core Strategy (2015) Policy CS11, Local Plan Part 2 (2021) Policies E4 and L2 and Filby Neighbourhood Plan (2022) Policy E5 and National Planning Policy Framework (December 2023) Paragraph 135 (c). |
| 4. | STATEMENT OF POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT (REFUSALS): In accordance with the NPPF, 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 sustainable or an acceptable form of development and has been refused for the reasons set out above. |
