Planning Application Details

The proposed development would lie outside the built up area of any settlement and the proposal fails to demonstrate an overriding functional need to warrant the provision of a rural workers' dwelling. As such, it would be contrary to Policy CSR1 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy and to advice set out in Paragraph 55 of the National Planning Policy Framework. Furthermore, in the absence of sufficient justification, the proposed dwelling would fail to protect the countryside for its own sake and would result in encroachment of development beyond the built up confines of Towersey, therefore detracting from the landscape setting of the settlement, contrary to Policy CSEN1 of the South Oxfordshire Core Strategy and Policy C4 of the South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2011.