®Planning appeal decision
West Park, West Drive, VIRGINIA WATER, GU25 4NE
a new mansard level over the existing garage, with lead dormer windows and white painted sash windows, to provide additional storage areas
- Authority
- Runnymede Borough Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to relevant development plan policy and the National Planning Policy Framework
- its effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The disproportionate scale of the extension, approaching double the floorspace and more than half as much in height, constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt that cannot be justified by very special circumstances.
The substantial harm from inappropriateness and loss of openness to the Green Belt was not clearly outweighed by other considerations including design quality, absence of visual harm and private domestic benefits.
Framework references: 149, 137, 138
Plan policies cited: Policy EE14
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.