7 Byram Park Avenue, Byram, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 9EH

described on the application from as ‘retrospective change of use of land to domestic garden and driveway and erection of new boundary fence

Authority: Selby District Council *
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Change of use
Inspector: Coyne C

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether elements of the proposal would be permitted development under Schedule 2, Part 2, Class A of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (GPDO)
whether the proposal would represent inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant Development Plan policies
if the proposed development is inappropriate, 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 the proposal

What decided it

The proposal fails to preserve the openness of the Green Belt and constitutes inappropriate development for which no very special circumstances exist to justify it, compounded by substantial biodiversity harm.

The substantial harm to the Green Belt and other harm to biodiversity are not clearly outweighed by the limited weight afforded to other considerations such as community benefit.

Framework references: 137, 147, 148, 149, 150, 174, 180

Plan policies cited: Policy SP2, Policy SP3

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