The site lies outside the settlement of Sleights/Iburndale and does not constitute an infill plot within the built up area of a settlement. If permitted this development would consolidate this pocket of sporadic development in the countryside to the detriment of the character of the environment and landscape of the North York Moors National Park. As such the proposal is contrary to Policy H3 of the North York Moors Local Plan which states that development will only be permitted on infill plots or larger sites within the existing built up areas of (inter alia) Sleights/Iburndale.
The proposed development will generate additional traffic on the unadopted access road at Lowdale which is wholly inadequate in terms of construction, design and layout to cater for increased vehicular movements. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy T7 of the North York Moors Local Plan which states that the proposed developments either individually or cumulatively must be of a scale which the adjacent road network has the capacity to serve without detriment to highway safety or to the environmental characteristics of the locality.