Self-Storage Site Owner Launches Appeal to Install Storage Containers in Farnham, Surrey [England]

An appeal is underway for retrospective planning permission to use land at Farnham Self Storage on Wrecclesham Hill for storage, including the installation of up to 154 storage containers and associated works. The application was refused in September on the grounds that it would have an “unacceptable impact on the open and rural character of this part of the countryside” and would be “intrusive and dominant” so diminishing the “intrinsic character and beauty of the open countryside”. The refusal also stated that the application would be contrary to both the…