®Planning appeal decision
7 Grayling Close, MARLOW, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2BA
without planning permission, a material change of use of the land to residential garden, together with the undertaking of engineering operations to level the land, and the erection of decking, fencing, BBQ shelter and retaining walls
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - Wycombe Area *
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hawkins S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the material change of use to residential garden and the operations including construction of a retaining wall, fencing, decking and barbecue shelter constitutes inappropriate development having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and the Development Plan, including the effect on the openness and purposes of the Green Belt
- 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 granting permission for the development that has been carried out
What decided it
The development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt that fails to preserve openness and encroaches into the countryside, with no other considerations that would clearly outweigh this harm to justify very special circumstances.
Framework references: 137, 138, 147, 148, 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy CP8 of the Wycombe District Local Plan, Policy DM42 of the Wycombe District Local Plan
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