®Planning appeal decision
Land known as Plot 1, Redbridge, Uddens Drive, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7BH
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
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
Framework references: 149, 150, 174
Plan policies cited: Policy HE3
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.