®Planning appeal decision
IAC Group Ltd, Unit 1-2 Progress Way, BIRMINGHAM, B40 1AB
formation of additional car parking to serve Units A and B at Prologis Park Birmingham Interchange with associated earthworks, engineering, landscaping and sustainable urban drainage systems
- Authority
- Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Hall R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
- whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the development
What decided it
The substantial harm to Green Belt openness and purposes, combined with moderate harm to publicly accessible open space, was not clearly outweighed by the economic benefits and biodiversity gains, such that very special circumstances did not exist.
The economic benefits and biodiversity net gain were afforded significant weight, but these did not clearly outweigh the substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, openness and purposes, together with moderate harm from loss of publicly accessible open space, and the balance tipped against the proposal.
Framework references: 99, 148, 174
Plan policies cited: Policy P17
Judgments cited: Pertemps Investments Limited v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2015] EWHC 2308 (Admin)
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.