®Planning appeal decision
Notice varied and upheld13 January 20233272647
Land at 151-153 Millrite Mews, London Road, Stanford Rivers, Ongar, CM5 9QF
Without planning permission, the unauthorised change of use of the Land for the storage of a container, portable buildings, skips, building equipment and materials
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- King T
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and, if so, the effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt
- Whether the development would create any other harm, with particular regard to highway safety and also the effect of the development on the Epping Forest Special Area of Conservation
- If it is inappropriate development, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness and by reason of any other harm is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What decided it
The storage use represents inappropriate development in the Green Belt that is harmful to its openness and landscape character, and no very special circumstances exist to justify it.
Framework references: 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy GB2A, Policy GB7A, Policy LL1, Policy LL2, Policy CP2, Policy SP6, Policy SP7
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