®Planning appeal decision
Allowed13 January 20223278054
Agricultural land adjacent to Meadow Gate House, Main Road, Lower Hartshay Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3RP
retention of an allotment with greenhouse, garden shed, raised beds and pathways on land adjacent to Meadow Gate House
- Authority
- Amber Valley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Change of use
- Inspector
- Wilson L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and development plan policy, including an assessment of the 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 and whether this would amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The allotment and associated facilities preserve the openness of the Green Belt and do not conflict with the purposes of including land within it, satisfying the exception in NPPF paragraph 149(b) for appropriate facilities for allotments.
Framework references: 149, 219, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy EN2
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