®Planning appeal decision
2 Fort Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7BW
Planning appeal 3284548 at 2 Fort Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN14 7BW (Sevenoaks District Council) was dismissed on 1 November 2022 by Inspector Courtney T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: 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.
a two-storey side extension
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Courtney T
- Postcode
- TN14 7BW
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.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy GB1 of the Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015Policy EN1 of the Local PlanPolicy EN2 of the Local PlanPolicy EN5 of the Local PlanPolicy SP1 of the Core Strategy
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 149
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
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