Mill Farmhouse, 7 Bridlington Street, Hunmanby

Appeals 6007220 and 6007221 · North Yorkshire Council · Planning Inspector · decided 4 September 2026 · dismissed

Single storey rear extension to a Grade II listed house (planning permission and listed building consent; appeals against non-determination).

Case page · Decision letter

Cited in: 2. Heritage harm at Forest Farm

Why this is cited. This appeal shows the heritage method section 2 describes: the inspector weighed the harm on its own terms (no clear and convincing justification, considerable importance and weight to the harm) before concluding that the public benefits did not outweigh it, and then carried that into S4. Forest Farm reached its decision without that step.

Key points

Heritage weighing: "clear and convincing justification has not been provided for the identified harm … the weight I attach to the public benefits which would result from the proposal, is not sufficient to outweigh the weight I attach to the harm to the assets and their significance" (¶40).
Conclusion: "the benefits of approving the proposal would be substantially outweighed by the identified adverse effects" (¶51).

Quotations are from the officer report, decision notice or appeal decision letter, with page (p.) or paragraph (¶) numbers. Read the decision itself for the full reasoning.

Summarised for the note on Stratford decisions under the August 2026 NPPF. Not legal advice. Back to the note.