®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed10 February 20233284044
Birkett House, Lindrick Common, WORKSOP, S81 8BQ
construction of an agricultural building (tractor and implement store)
- Authority
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Phillips A
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development for the purposes of the development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt and the character and appearance of the area
- If the proposal would be inappropriate development, 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 necessary to justify it
What decided it
The lack of clear evidence that the appeal property is an active agricultural holding and that the machinery is utilised for agricultural purposes meant the proposal could not be justified as an exception to the Green Belt policy, and the resulting harm to openness and character was not outweighed by special circumstances.
Plan policies cited: Policy SP2, Policy SP7
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