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Planning permission granted13 September 20213241105

Land North Side of Coppice Lane, Hammerwich, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS7 0JY

Planning appeal 3241105 at Land North Side of Coppice Lane, Hammerwich, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS7 0JY (Lichfield District Council) was allowed on 13 September 2021 by Inspector E. Griffin, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the change of use from agricultural to equestrian use is inappropriate having regard to development plan policies and the Framework.

Without planning permission, the unauthorised change of use of land from agricultural to equestrian use, including the erection of two timber stables (shown approximately edged black on the attached plan) and a timber hay store (shown approximately edged in blue on the attached plan)

Authority
Lichfield District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
E. Griffin
Postcode
WS7 0JY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the change of use from agricultural to equestrian use is inappropriate having regard to development plan policies and the Framework.
  • If the development constitutes inappropriate development, whether the harm by way of inappropriateness and any other harm is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development.

What decided it

The buildings were immune from enforcement under the 4-year rule and the equestrian use itself was found not to be inappropriate development in the Green Belt under Framework paragraph 150(e).

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy NR2
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 150Paragraph 146
Judgments
Murfitt v Secretary of State & East Cambridgeshire DC 1980; R (Hall Hunter Partnership) v FSS & Waverley BC 2007

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

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