®Planning appeal decision
Romney Street Mobile Home Park, Romney Street, Knatts Valley, Kent, TN15 6XW
Unauthorised operational development in the form of: a front boundary wall higher than 1 metre in height adjacent to the road and above 2 metres in other parts. Unauthorised engineering works in the form of: the erection of four raised patios; and, the raising of land levels around plot 15 (of the Site Licence Plan)
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Hocking P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not the developments are inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework
- the effect of the developments on the landscape and scenic beauty of the Kent Downs AONB
- the effect of three of the raised patios on the living conditions of adjoining occupiers, having particular regard to overlooking
- if the developments are inappropriate, whether the harm by reason 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 front boundary wall's substantial harm to Green Belt openness and failure to preserve AONB landscape and scenic beauty, with no other considerations of sufficient weight to justify the development, meant the enforcement notice must be upheld for the wall while permission was granted for the patios and land raising.
Framework references: 137, 149
Plan policies cited: Policy LO8, Policy SP1, Policy EN1, Policy EN5, Policy EN2
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