Permission granted for the construction of a commercial indoor arena in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. MDP overcame concerns including harm to the setting of a listing building, landscape impact, harm to a nearby registered park and garden, harm to nearby village and lack of “Need” for the building.
In terms of overall constraints, the site is located within the Ironstone Hills Fringe Special Landscape Area (SLA). In accordance with the Council’s Special Landscape Areas Study, the key qualities of this SLA include rolling landscapes, strongly hedged field patterns, mixed farmland and wooded parkland. The site itself forms part of a larger residential/equestrian complex.
The site is part of an existing equestrian centre between the villages of Farnborough and Avon Dassett. It sits in the countryside in a locally significant Special Landscape Area (SLA), which comprises a rolling topography of fields separated by hedging and areas of woodlands and interspersed by farmsteads and small settlements.
The arena will enable the existing well-renowned equestrian business to offer a better year-round service and will grow as a business, offering improved facilities for working with younger horses, providing a safely controlled environment in which to do so and increasing the value of the individual horses through additional training. Offering training to during inclement weather conditions, which is particularly important given that, unlike other similar equine training businesses, there is no existing facility at the site to allow for this.
The planning application was submitted in August 2022 but needed to go to Appeal after refusal from Planning Committee in July 2023. Appeal was allowed in June 2024; an end to end time of over two years given the application took 2 months to prepare.
All five of the Planning committees’ reasons for refusal were each individually and collectively overturned at Appeal. Where the Inspector found no cogent reason to aggravate the development any further. Our client was delighted and is due to start work during the Summer.
For more information or help with your planning application or appeal, get in touch with MDP using the contact form.
In terms of overall constraints, the site is located within the Ironstone Hills Fringe Special Landscape Area (SLA). In accordance with the Council’s Special Landscape Areas Study, the key qualities of this SLA include rolling landscapes, strongly hedged field patterns, mixed farmland and wooded parkland. The site itself forms part of a larger residential/equestrian complex.
The site is part of an existing equestrian centre between the villages of Farnborough and Avon Dassett. It sits in the countryside in a locally significant Special Landscape Area (SLA), which comprises a rolling topography of fields separated by hedging and areas of woodlands and interspersed by farmsteads and small settlements.
The arena will enable the existing well-renowned equestrian business to offer a better year-round service and will grow as a business, offering improved facilities for working with younger horses, providing a safely controlled environment in which to do so and increasing the value of the individual horses through additional training. Offering training to during inclement weather conditions, which is particularly important given that, unlike other similar equine training businesses, there is no existing facility at the site to allow for this.
The planning application was submitted in August 2022 but needed to go to Appeal after refusal from Planning Committee in July 2023. Appeal was allowed in June 2024; an end to end time of over two years given the application took 2 months to prepare.
All five of the Planning committees’ reasons for refusal were each individually and collectively overturned at Appeal. Where the Inspector found no cogent reason to aggravate the development any further. Our client was delighted and is due to start work during the Summer.
For more information or help with your planning application or appeal, get in touch with MDP using the contact form.