®Planning appeal decision
The Farm Office, Temple Farm, High Street, Roydon, CM19 5LW
the “change of use and conversion of existing agricultural buildings to create 5 new dwellings”
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wyatt G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal is inappropriate development for the purposes of the Framework and its effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- if the 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 very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
- the effect of the development on the integrity of the Epping Forest Special Area of Conservation
What decided it
The proposed residential use would have a greater visual impact on the openness of the Green Belt and conflict with the purpose of safeguarding the countryside from encroachment, and no very special circumstances exist to justify this inappropriate development.
Framework references: 11, 137, 138, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151
Plan policies cited: Policy CP1, Policy CP2, Policy CP6, Policy LL1, Policy GB2A, Policy GB7A, Policy ST1, Policy DM2, Policy DM3, Policy DM4, Policy DM22, Policy SP2
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