®Planning appeal decision
20 Smallholding, Oxford Road, Denham, Denham, Buckinghamshire, UB9 4DG
without planning permission the unauthorised material change of use of the Land from agricultural use to a sui generis use for vehicle and plant haulage and plant hire including the outdoor parking and storage of vehicles, plant and machinery and the carrying out of operational development facilitating and integral to the unauthorised material change of use, comprising the following: a) the construction of a building as a workshop and offices on the Land in the approximate position shown cross hatched and marked ‘A’ on the Plan attached to the notice (“the Building”); and b) the laying of concrete hardstanding on the Land located in the approximate position shown dotted and labelled ‘B’ on the Plan attached to the notice (“the Hardstanding”)
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Cook B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect on the character and appearance of the area
- Would the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The specific locational requirements of the appellant's business as a specialist haulage supplier to Network Rail and abnormal loads operator, combined with the realistic fallback position of the 2008 permission development, clearly outweigh the limited harm to Green Belt openness and justify very special circumstances.
The harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and limited harm to openness (attracting substantial weight) was clearly outweighed by significant weight given to the fallback position and the specific business needs, some weight to local employment, and limited weight to lack of alternative sites, resulting in very special circumstances justifying the development.
Framework references: 137, 147, 148, 219
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1 of the South Bucks District Local Plan, Policy EP3 of the South Bucks District Local Plan, Core Policy 8 of the South Bucks Core Strategy
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