Land Title 217277 situated at Greenfields Top Field, Braybrooke Road, Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, LE16 8JW

Without planning permission, a material change of use from agricultural land to a mixed use of agriculture and the stationing of a mobile home to facilitate a carpentry workshop, manufacturing of bee hives and storage of ancillary equipment within the area edged in Red on the attached plan1

Authority: Kettering Borough Council *
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Hearing
Development: agricultural · Change of use
Inspector: Willows P

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
Whether the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework), applies
Whether any harm arising from the development is outweighed by other considerations, including any need for it, when the appropriate planning balance is applied

What decided it

The harm to the character and appearance of the rural area from the mobile home and carpentry workshop was not outweighed by the limited economic or operational benefits put forward by the appellant.

the limited economic benefits and other considerations advanced by the appellant did not outweigh the harm to the character and appearance of the area, so ground (a) failed

Framework references: 11, 219

Plan policies cited: Policy 3, Policy 11, Policy 25

Judgments cited: Brazil (Concrete) Ltd v MHLG & Amersham RDC [1967] 18 P&CR 396; Wealden District Council v Secretary of State for Environment and Colin Day (1988) JPL 268 CA; Main v SSETR & South Oxfordshire DC [1999] JPL 195; Millington v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council [1999] EWCA Civ 1682; Deakin v First Secretary of State and Others; Borough of Restormel v The Secretary of State for the Environment and Others

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