Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Application overview
Creation of a single off street parking bay and access (in retrospect).
Proposal details
- Reference
- 25/0688/PA
- Alternative references
- PP-14460937
- Ward
- Llanrhian
- Parish
- SLV_St_Nicholas
- UPRN
- 10009874652
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Application timeline
Council milestones and published deadlines. A deadline passing does not confirm a decision.
Consultation expiry date
Past published deadlineA published target or deadline. It does not confirm an outcome.
Council sourceStatutory expiry date
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Council sourceSite notice end date
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Council sourceDecision due date
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Council sourceExtension date
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Council source
Decision & conditions
Planning conditions
- The creation of a single off street parking bay and access introduces a visually incongruous feature that disrupts the established traditional frontages that characterise the settlement of St Nicholas. The resultant loss of the stone wall frontage harms the coherent character of the area and host dwelling and has a detrimental impact on visual amenity.The development therefore fails to accord with SP 1 (Sustainable Development), Criteria 1 and 2 of Policy GN.1 (General Development Policy) and Criteria 1 and 2 of Policy GN.2 (Sustainable Design) of the Pembrokeshire Local Development Plan (adopted February 2013).
- No biodiversity enhancement measures have been included as part of the proposed scheme. The application also fails to provide a Green Infrastructure Statement to identify the green infrastructure baseline of the site and demonstrate a stepwise approach to inform any green infrastructure and biodiversity enhancement features. As such the proposal fails to secure a net benefit for biodiversity thereby failing to comply with policies SP 1 (Sustainable Development), GN.1 (General Development Policy), GN.37 (Protection and Enhancement of Biodiversity), Planning Policy Wales Edition 12, 2024 and the Environment (Wales) Act 2016.
- This decision relates only to the plans identified below: Proposed Block Plan. 24/11/2025
- The vehicular access, due to the absence of adequate and demonstrably achievable visibility splays, would result in substandard visibility for vehicles emerging onto the adjoining classified road. As a consequence, the development is a detriment to highway safety and would prejudice the safe and free flow of traffic. As such the proposal fails to accord with criterion 5 of Policy GN.1 (General Development Policy).
