Conditions / Refusal Reasons
The Development Plan identifies appropriate locations for new development. New buildings within the Green Belt will not be allowed unless the development falls within strictly defined criteria. Garsington is one of the villages within the district where infill development may be allowed but planning permission will not be granted for new housing on the edge of settlements that would extend the built up limits of development into the surrounding countryside. In this case the site lies in a backland location within the Oxford Green Belt on the edge of the built up limits of the village. It would not be considered as an appropriate location for new residential development. The provision of a new dwelling on this site would extend the built up limits of the village detracting from its landscape setting, would detract from the openness of the Green Belt and the character of the Area of Great Landscape Value. As such, the proposal would be inappropriate development contrary to advice contained in PPG2 and contrary to Policies G1 and G4 of the Oxfordshire Structure Plan, Policies G1, GB2, C3, H5 and H6 of the adopted South Oxfordshire Local Plan and Policies G2, GB2, C4, H5, H6 and E8 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011 Second Deposit Draft.
That, having regard to the proposed siting of the new dwelling to the rear of no 69 Southend and the proposed shared access, the development is considered to constitute unsatisfactory tandem development which would result in disturbance and lack of privacy to the occupiers of no 69 Southend Garsington contrary to Policies G1 and H18 of the adopted South Oxfordshire Local Plan and Policies G2 and H4 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011 Second Deposit Draft.
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