®Planning appeal decision
2 Fort Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7BW
a two-storey side extension
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Courtney T
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and development plan policy
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- If the development would be inappropriate, whether the harm to the Green Belt by way of inappropriateness and any other harm would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The cumulative 67.3% increase in floorspace, when combined with previous extensions, constitutes disproportionate additions that harm the Green Belt's openness and inappropriateness, with no very special circumstances to justify approval.
Framework references: 149
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1 of the Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015, Policy EN1 of the Local Plan, Policy EN2 of the Local Plan, Policy EN5 of the Local Plan, Policy SP1 of the Core Strategy
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.