®Planning appeal decision
Plot 6, Redbridge, Uddens Drive, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 7BJ
a material change of use from agricultural land to a mixed use to agricultural and recreational activities comprising the erection of buildings and structures, formation of hardstanding and culverted ditch
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hand S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether there has been a material change of use from agricultural land to a mixed use comprising agricultural and recreational activities
- Whether the buildings and structures erected on the land constitute development requiring planning permission
- Whether planning permission should be granted for the open storage building, hardstanding and culverted ditch
What decided it
The stable and shipping container failed to preserve the openness of the green belt and were not appropriate facilities for outdoor recreation, whereas the open-fronted store had a genuine agricultural use and the hardstanding and culvert were engineering operations that preserved openness.
The agricultural use of the open-fronted store and the engineering operations (hardstanding and culvert) that preserve green belt openness were permitted, but the stable and shipping container as inappropriate development harming green belt openness were refused.
Framework references: 149, 150
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.