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Planning permission granted20 May 20223219578

Woodcroft, Ash Road, Hartley, Longfield, Kent, DA3 8EY

Planning appeal 3219578 at Woodcroft, Ash Road, Hartley, Longfield, Kent, DA3 8EY (Sevenoaks District Council) was allowed on 20 May 2022 by Inspector Dignan P, following a hearing.

Stationing of mobile home for residential occupation

Authority
Sevenoaks District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
caravan-gypsy · Change of use
Inspector
Dignan P
Postcode
DA3 8EY

What decided it

The Inspector found that very special circumstances, principally the lack of alternative sites and the best interests of the appellants' grandchildren, clearly outweighed the definitional Green Belt harm of the traveller site and the outbuilding, and that the lawful residential planning unit meant the mobile home use was not a material change of use requiring permission.

the substantial weight attached to the inappropriateness of the gypsy/traveller use in the Green Belt was clearly outweighed by the very substantial weight given to other considerations including lack of alternative sites, previously developed land and the best interests of the children, such that very special circumstances existed

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