a) Matters taken into account when dealing with planning applications:
- How the development fits in with the surroundings
- Design and appearance
- Scale
- Materials
- Access
- Traffic generation/parking
- Use/activitiy to be carried out
- Nuisance eg. noise, fumes etc.
- Infrastructure
- Effect on amenity
- Green belt
- Nature conservation
- Historic environment (listed buildings and conservation areas)
- Renewable energy
- Flooding
- Protected trees and hedgerows
- National and local adopted policies
b) Matters which are not relevant:
- Effect of competition on other individuals
- Protection of a view
- Loss of property values
- Local support or opposition, unless the grounds for this take account of points in (a) above
