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
Tarmac driveway
Proposal details
- Reference
- 25/0828/PA
- Alternative references
- PP-14553954
- Ward
- Milford East
- Parish
- HT_Milford_Haven
- UPRN
- 100100287798
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Decision & conditions
Planning conditions
- The tarmac surfacing of the front garden introduces a hard, incongruous feature that disrupts the established pattern of soft landscaped frontages characteristic of this early 20th century terraced street. The loss of the uniform green setting harms the coherent visual character of the area and results in a detrimental impact on local amenity. The development therefore conflicts with 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).
- The tarmac surfacing of the front garden introduces a hard and visually incongruous feature that disrupts the established pattern of soft landscaped frontages that characterise this early 20th century terraced street. The resultant loss of the uniform green setting harms the coherent visual character of the area and has a detrimental impact on local amenity. The development therefore fails to accord with 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).
- The tarmac surfacing represents an impermeable finish, and no details have been provided to demonstrate how surface water generated by the development would be appropriately managed. In the absence of such information, the proposal has the potential to discharge surface water onto the adopted highway, creating an unacceptable risk to highway safety and amounting to an unsustainable form of development. Accordingly, and in the absence of adequate surface water drainage infrastructure, the proposal fails to comply with Criterion 5 of Policy GN.1 (General Development Policy) of the Pembrokeshire Local Development Plan (adopted February 2013).
- The development has resulted in the avoidable loss of an established urban tree and associated amenity grassland, with no evidence of any public benefit arising from their removal. The proposed compensatory measure, a single dwarf fruit tree, is inadequate and does not reflect the quality, ecological value, or functional role of the green infrastructure that has been lost. As such, the proposal fails to provide proportionate mitigation or to follow a stepwise approach to safeguarding green infrastructure, as required by established nature conservation principles. Although minor biodiversity enhancements are offered, these are insufficient to outweigh the unmitigated harm resulting from the loss of established green infrastructure. The proposal therefore conflicts with Policy GN.37 of the Pembrokeshire Local Development Plan (adopted February 2013), and does not meet the duties to maintain and enhance biodiversity set out under the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 or the guidance contained within Technical Advice Note 5: Nature Conservation and Planning.
