®Planning appeal decision
Land North East Of The Old Vicarage, Wyses Road, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 3SN
siting of temporary mobile home to support equestrian breeding facility
- Authority
- Chelmsford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Chalk M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development proposed would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including any effect on openness, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- Would the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The temporary nature of the permission and the demonstrated specialist business benefits with strong customer support outweighed the harm to Green Belt openness and inappropriateness.
The benefits of establishing a specialist equestrian breeding facility with demonstrated international demand and employment provision outweighed the harm to the Green Belt by inappropriateness and loss of openness, justified by the temporary 3-year period and reversibility of harm.
Plan policies cited: Policy DM12, Policy S11
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.