®Planning appeal decision
Ashtrees Paddocks, Woodside Road, Lower Woodside, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 4DJ
without planning permission, the material change of use of land from stables with grazing land and the storage of a touring caravan, to a residential use involving the siting and use of a twin-unit mobile home for residential purposes, the storage of a touring caravan, the change of use of the stables to domestic storage use incidental to the residential use, and the erection of timber fencing by mobile home and front boundary metal sheeting
- Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Savage M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal scheme is inappropriate development in the green belt having regard to the revised framework and relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the appeal scheme on the openness of the Green Belt
- Whether the appeal site is a suitable location for residential development, having regard to its location and proximity to services and facilities
- The effect of the appeal scheme on the character and appearance of the area
- Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the appeal scheme
What decided it
The appeal scheme is inappropriate development in the Green Belt that harms openness and is located in an unsustainable location without accessible services, and these harms are not clearly outweighed by other considerations.
Framework references: 149
Plan policies cited: SP4, SP7, HQ1, EE5
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