®Planning appeal decision
1 Clewshaw Cottage, Clewshaw Lane, Birmingham, B38 0EE
‘Construction of a four-bedroom dwelling below ground level on residential land east of 1 Clewshaw Cottage, to replace the existing shed/garage/workshop, office, kennel, reed beds and planned games room under 18/01569/CPL.’
- Authority
- Bromsgrove District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Stephens K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies and its effect upon openness and reasons for including land within it
- Whether the appeal site would be a suitable location for housing with regard to local and national policies
- If the proposed development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt, 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 the proposal
What decided it
The proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt with greater impact on openness than existing development, and the site is unsuitable for housing due to poor accessibility and reliance on private car use, with no very special circumstances to justify the harm.
The harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and harm to the Council's housing strategy designed to promote sustainable patterns of development was not clearly outweighed by environmental benefits, economic uplift, social benefits, self-build status, or potential housing land supply shortfall.
Framework references: 11, 79, 104, 105, 147, 148, 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy BDP4 (Green Belt), Policy BDP2 (Settlement Hierarchy), Policy BDP1 (Sustainable Development Principles)
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.