®Planning appeal decision
Brookbank Farm, Bridge Lane, Goostrey, Cheshire, CW4 8BX
for the change of use to mixed use for agriculture and a waste transfer station / skip hire site, landscaping and associated works
- Authority
- Cheshire East
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- minerals-waste · Change of use
- Inspector
- Plenty B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed use would be located in a suitable location with respect to local and national policies
- whether the agricultural holding site includes an established mixed use as a viable fall-back position
What decided it
The Inspector's finding that the proposed waste transfer/skip hire use was in a suitable location in accordance with local and national waste and countryside policies.
The benefits of a suitable, policy-compliant location, rural employment provision and reuse of redundant agricultural buildings, together with a moderate-weight fallback position, led the Inspector to conclude the proposal accorded with the development plan as a whole.
Plan policies cited: Policy 4 of the Cheshire Replacement Waste Local Plan (2007)(WLP), WLP Policy 5, Policy 29 of the WLP, Policy PG6 of the Cheshire East Local Plan Strategy 2010-2030 (CELPS) (2017), CELPS policy EG1, policy EG2, CELPS Policy CO1, Policy SD1, saved Policy PS8 of the Congleton Borough Local Plan (CBLP)
Judgments cited: Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment and New Forest [1972] 1 WLR 1207
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