®Planning appeal decision
Land to the South of 8-10 Ashbury Cottages, Gore Pit To Emley Lane, Hinton Martell, Dorset, BH21 7HG
to demolish existing storage building and erect a replacement building for storage / office space
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Davies N
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and development plan policy
- The effect of the development on the landscape character of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- 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 the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What decided it
The proposed building would be inappropriate development causing substantial harm to the openness of the Green Belt, and the business benefits and absence of AONB harm do not amount to very special circumstances sufficient to justify the development.
The benefits to an existing local business attracted limited weight and were outweighed by the substantial weight attached to the harm to Green Belt openness and the presumption against inappropriate development; the balance did not tip in favour of the proposal.
Framework references: 84, 85, 137, 145, 146, 148, 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy KS2, Policy PC4, Policy GB7, Policy GBV2, Policy HE2, Policy HE3
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