®Planning appeal decision
Sturminster Marshall Golf Club, Moor Lane , Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, BH21 4BD
erection of a 2-storey extension to form an enlarged restaurant on the ground floor, additional headroom in the existing first floor function room, stairwell access and terrace area. Alterations to the existing public highway including junction improvements
- Authority
- Dorset
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Jones RE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies, including the effect on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
- the effect of the proposal on biodiversity
- whether any 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 the proposal
What decided it
The disproportionate scale of the extensions to the original building and the failure to preserve the openness of the Green Belt, combined with unresolved biodiversity concerns and insufficient evidence of very special circumstances, led to dismissal.
Framework references: 149, 145, 174, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy KS3, Policy ME1, Policy KE3
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