A family which won an appeal against a decision by Hambleton District Council to reject a proposal to site traveller caravans on a farm has launched further action over the authority’s refusal to allow them to build an amenity building.
The Adams family has appealed to the Secretary of State following the council’s ruling over proposals to fulfil their domestic needs, which they say would not be met by the caravans at Oakwood Farm, Tame Bridge, near Stokesley.
When the proposal was considered by the council’s planning committee in February, officers recommended it be granted as the 5m by 8m amenity building was “proportionate to that required to meet the occupiers’ reasonable amenity needs” and therefore outweighed the limited harm caused to the surrounding rural landscape.
However, councillors decided the proposed development would introduce an urban feature at odds with the rural area and this would have a harmful, cumulative impact on the site as a whole.
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