7, Sergeants Green Lane, Waltham Abbey, EN9 3SH

erection of a haybarn

Authority: Epping Forest District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: agricultural · Other minor developments
Inspector: Savage K

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal amounts to inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including the effect on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
If the development is inappropriate, whether any 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 it

What decided it

The proposal would result in a demonstrable loss of openness in both spatial and visual terms and would conflict with the purposes of the Green Belt, constituting inappropriate development for which no very special circumstances existed to justify approval.

Framework references: 149, 11

Plan policies cited: Saved Policy GB2A, Draft Policy DM4

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