®Planning appeal decision
Westwood Lodge, South Ash Road, Ash, Sevenoaks, TN15 7HR
Planning appeal 3275700 at Westwood Lodge, South Ash Road, Ash, Sevenoaks, TN15 7HR (Sevenoaks District Council) was dismissed on 10 February 2022 by Inspector Jolly J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would represent inappropriate development in the Metropolitan Green Belt, and if inappropriate development, the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt, and whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, or any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development.
for the construction of a single-storey 3-bedroom holiday-let along with a new access driveway, footpaths, parking spaces, cycle store shed, hedgerows and fencing within the residential curtilage of Westwood Lodge
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Jolly J
- Postcode
- TN15 7HR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would represent inappropriate development in the Metropolitan Green Belt, and if inappropriate development, the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt, and whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, or 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 substantial weight to be given to harm to the openness of the Green Belt from inappropriate development was not clearly outweighed by the economic and social benefits of the holiday-let proposal.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Sevenoaks District Council Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 137Paragraph 147Paragraph 148Paragraph 149Paragraph 150Paragraph 151
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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