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Allowed24 February 20233255502

Manor View Southend Road, Fobbing, Stanford-Le-Hope, SS17 9EY

Planning appeal 3255502 at Manor View Southend Road, Fobbing, Stanford-Le-Hope, SS17 9EY (Thurrock Borough Council) was allowed on 24 February 2023 by Inspector McDonald K, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the development on the openness and purposes of the Green Belt.

Use of land for a four pitch gypsy/traveller site with layout comprising the siting of six mobile homes, two touring caravans, one day room and a static caravan used as a day room

Authority
Thurrock Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
caravan-gypsy · Other minor developments
Inspector
McDonald K
Postcode
SS17 9EY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the development on the openness and purposes of the Green Belt
  • The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
  • Whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal

What decided it

The overwhelming and sustained unmet need for Gypsy and Traveller pitches combined with the Council's persistent and prolonged failure of planning policy to provide sites clearly outweighed the Green Belt harm, establishing very special circumstances.

The other considerations of acute unmet pitch need, absence of a five-year supply of deliverable sites, and persistent policy failure clearly outweighed the substantial Green Belt harm from inappropriateness and modest loss of openness, establishing very special circumstances in favour of allowing the appeal.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CSSP4Policy PMD6Policy CSTP3
Judgments
Smith v SSLUHC & Ors [2022] EWCA

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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