®Planning appeal decision
Land at Plot 29 Roydon Lodge Chalet Estate, Roydon, CM19 5EF
Without planning permission: The material change in the use of the Land from a recreational leisure plot use to a residential use including the stationing of static caravans, touring caravans and associated development, including the installation of a cess pit and hardstanding
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Lewis D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issue is whether the harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm resulting from the caravan site, is clearly outweighed by other considerations to provide the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development.
What decided it
The absence of a five-year supply of deliverable traveller sites, the lack of any suitable alternative pitch for the family, and the personal circumstances including the best interests of the young children, which together were found to clearly outweigh the identified Green Belt and flood risk harm on a temporary basis.
the substantial Green Belt harm and significant flood risk harm were, on a temporary basis, clearly outweighed by the very significant weight given to the shortfall in traveller site provision, the lack of an alternative pitch and the family's personal circumstances, justifying a temporary (4-year) permission
Plan policies cited: Policy E, Policy GB2A, Policy RST10A, Policy H10A, Policy CP1, Policy CP2, Policy GB7A, Policy U2A, Policy NC1, Policy LL3, Policy SP 2, Policy SP 4, Policy SP 5, Policy H 4, Policy DM 2, Policy DM 22
Judgments cited: Pitman v Secretary of State for the Environment [1989] JPL 831
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