Land adjacent Everglade Farm, Mount Pleasant Lane, Lymington

6008742·New Forest National Park Authority·7 Sept 2026dismissed·25/00974FULL

Tier label used

Defined Villages (most sustainable settlements)

The tier sentence ¶12

“the Defined Villages are considered to be the most sustainable settlements in the NFNP”

Summary

The appeal was for two residential caravans (not a traveller site) on a wooded plot in the New Forest National Park. It was dismissed. The site was isolated, "not located within groups of houses", fell outside every S5(1) category and met no HO11 circumstance. The inspector used S5(2): DP3(3) "should be refused" plus N4 substantial weight meant the benefits were "substantially outweighed". There was no survey for great crested newts, and the access was unevidenced.

The location finding

TR3: fail. narrow unlit roads without segregated footways to Sway and Lymington; heavy car dependence (DL 13)

Why this is cited

Site outside the Defined Villages (the sustainable tier): against. In the register this counts as a case where the tier counted against the site.

Sources

Decision on the Planning Inspectorate appeals service · full decision note · letter pins-corpus/6008742.txt

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