Erection of a replacement outbuilding to provide storage, garaging and a joinery workshop

Environment Policy 1

Protects countryside (land outside settlements or not designated for development) from adverse development unless overriding national need and no alternative. Officer assessed replacement outbuilding would not adversely affect countryside visually or in amenity due to similar scale/footprint, lower height, and existing lawful use; no overriding need required as impacts not greater than existing.

Environment Policy 16

Permits conversion of outbuildings to alternative uses including industrial if of historic/social/architectural interest. Not applicable as proposal is replacement (not conversion) of non-traditional buildings lacking such interest; prior lawful use already established.

Environment Policy 4

Protects ecology. Bat report confirmed no bats in buildings; DEFA Ecology concurred, no further mitigation needed beyond welcomed bat boxes.

General Policy 3

Presumption against development in areas not designated for particular purpose. Site in such area on Area Plan for the South, but replacement accepted as not intensifying use or harm given lawful status and minimal change.