Land Known As Plot 1, Redbridge, Uddens Drive, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7BH

Planning appeal 3263665 at Land Known As Plot 1, Redbridge, Uddens Drive, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7BH (Dorset) was decided (quashed on legal grounds) on 27 August 2021 by Inspector Hand S, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the material change of use of agricultural land to a mixed use of agriculture and recreational gardening activities, as alleged, has occurred (ground (c)).

cChange of use of land to outdoor recreation (including allotment land) and erection of a storage building

Authority: Dorset
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Inquiry
Development: leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector: Hand S
Postcode: BH21 7BH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the material change of use of agricultural land to a mixed use of agriculture and recreational gardening activities, as alleged, has occurred (ground (c))
Whether the proposed change of use to outdoor recreation and erection of a storage building would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt and, if so, whether very special circumstances exist

What decided it

The enforcement appeals succeeded because the Inspector found no material change of use had occurred by the notice date, while the planning appeal was dismissed because the storage building and unconstrained recreational use amounted to inappropriate development causing harm to Green Belt openness with no very special circumstances.

the harm to the openness of the Green Belt from the storage building and an unconstrained recreational use was not outweighed by any very special circumstances, so the balance tipped against granting permission for Appeal C

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy HE3
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 149Paragraph 150Paragraph 174

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