Redriff Birdhouse Lane, Downe, ORPINGTON, BR6 7LJ

demolition of existing stable buildings and erection of a new house with car port and stables (with associated refuse and cycle facilities)

Authority: London Borough of Bromley
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Nilsson A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the appeal development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the Framework, including the effect on openness
If the appeal development is inappropriate development, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it

What decided it

The inappropriate development in the Green Belt causing moderate harm to openness in visual terms was not clearly outweighed by other considerations, including the creation of an additional dwelling, such that very special circumstances could not be established.

Framework references: 147, 148, 149

Plan policies cited: Policy 49 of the Bromley Local Plan (2019)

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