Why Was This Refused?
- ✓Existing cottage is attractive traditional rural dwelling
- ✓Positive contribution to High Landscape Value area
- ✓Site not designated for development
- ✓Conflicts with 1982 Development Plan
- ✓Risk of precedent for countryside development
- ✓No justification for new house alongside A15
- ✓character
- ✓precedent
- ✓no justification for the new house alongside the A15 and this should be reduced
- ✓retention of wildlife buffer to stream
- ✓protection of civil
- ✓defer - now ok
The proposal was for approval in principle to demolish an existing modest traditional rural cottage and replace it with a new dwelling alongside Cornoa Road, near the A15 in an area of High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance. The site includes the cottage on the upper part of the road, with a flat-roofed porch, lawn, shed, and ruined buildings nearby. The Secretary Planning Committee refused the application. Key concerns from the officer report included no justification for a new house alongside the A15, retention of a wildlife buffer to the stream, and protection of civil amenities. Refusal reasons stated the existing cottage positively contributes to the area's character, and its loss for a new building would be unwarranted. The site lacks development designation, and the proposal would conflict with the Development Plan and risk setting a precedent for countryside development.
The Planning Committee refused the application. The existing cottage makes a positive contribution to the High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance area, and replacing it would be unwarranted. The site is not designated for development, and an additional dwelling alongside the road would conflict with the Development Plan and set a precedent.
Site Observations
- •The site lies alongside the Cornoa Road which leads from the A15 past the entrance to Ballinglass Glen to the fishhatchery and ultimately to Cornoa Beach (Port Cornoa).
- •The cottage sits on the upper part of the road closest to A15.
- •a single story cottage with flat-koofed porch and lawn-to-shed to the south. There are other ruined buildings to the south.
Refusal Reasons
- ✕The existing cottage is an attractive example of a modest traditional rural dwelling, and makes a positive contribution to the appearance and character of this area of High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance; loss of the existing building and the construction of a new building in its place would be unwarranted and undesirable.
- ✕The site is not designated for development on the 1982 Development Plan Order, but is within an area designated as being of High Landscape Value and Scenic Significance; the erection of an additional dwelling alongside the road as now proposed would thus be contrary to the Development Plan and would establish a precedent for further similar development elsewhere within the countryside.
