®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed5 September 20223287052
2 Mill Hill Farm Cottages Chalk Street, Rettendon Common, CHELMSFORD, CM3 8DE
the retention of a timber outbuilding
- Authority
- Chelmsford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Grierson E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the revised National Planning Policy Framework and relevant development plan policies
- The effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect on the setting and significance of the grade II listed building at 2 Mill Hill Farm Cottages
- 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 the development
What decided it
The harm to the Green Belt through loss of openness and inappropriateness was not clearly outweighed by other considerations, and the very special circumstances required to justify development in the Green Belt were not established.
Framework references: 148, 149
Plan policies cited: Policy DM6, Policy DM13
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