®Planning appeal decision
Edge End Farm White Brook Lane, Greenfield, OLDHAM, OL3 7PH
change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouse including rebuilding of part of building which has collapsed (resubmission of PA/338670/16)’ without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref PA/339551/17, dated 20 April 2017
- Authority
- Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Savage K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the disputed condition is necessary and reasonable to make the development acceptable in planning terms, having regard to the site's location in the Green Belt and the effect on the character and appearance of the area
What decided it
The Government's intentional omission of Green Belt land from Article 2(3) of the GPDO, combined with the Framework's requirement for clear justification to restrict PD rights, meant that blanket removal of PD rights was neither necessary nor reasonable in the absence of site-specific exceptional circumstances.
Framework references: 54, 56
Plan policies cited: Policy 22, Policy 9, Policy 20
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.