Erection of four shepherd huts with self-contained bathroom, living area and bedroom.

Why Was This Refused?

• ✓Site is within a protected Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance
• ✓Structures would cause harm to the protected landscape with no mitigation proposed
• ✓Existing A1 road access has very poor visibility, particularly towards Peel
• ✓Increased traffic activity from the development would be harmful to road users
• ✓No special circumstances were put forward to justify the development
• ✓highways
• ✓access
• ✓Impact upon the landscape
• ✓Impact on traffic
• ✓Impact upon the neighbouring dwellings
• ✓Planning balance

Permission was sought to erect four shepherd huts at Vale House, Main Road, Greeba, each with a self-contained bathroom, living area, and bedroom. The site sits within an Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance (AHLV). The application was refused by the Head of Development Management on 7 April 2025. The officer's report noted that the field currently goes largely unnoticed from the road, and that adding structures in this sensitive landscape location would cause harm. No special circumstances were advanced and no measures to protect or enhance the landscape were proposed. A second reason for refusal concerned highway safety.

The application was refused on 7 April 2025. The site lies within an Area of High Landscape or Coastal Value and Scenic Significance, and adding four shepherd hut structures was found to harm that protected landscape with no special circumstances or mitigation offered. The existing access onto the A1 road was also found to fall below required standards, with very poor visibility of oncoming traffic from the direction of Peel, making increased activity at the site harmful to road users.

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