The Hatchery Farm Shop, Red Barn Farm, Amersham Road, Beaconsfield, HP7 0JY

described on the application form as ‘Retrospective application for the retention of a Farm Shop, Cabin selling hot/cold drinks and the associated conversion and use of a former kennel building as a kitchen

Authority: Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: retail · Change of use
Inspector: Simpson L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including the effect on its openness and the purposes of including land within it
If the proposal is inappropriate development, 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 it

What decided it

The development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt that harms its openness and encroaches on the countryside, and the moderate social and economic benefits do not clearly outweigh this substantial harm to justify very special circumstances.

Framework references: 137, 138, 149, 150

Plan policies cited: GB1, GB2, Core Policy 10

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