®Planning appeal decision
Mobile Home at Robertsons Nursery, Goldsel Road, Swanley, BR8 8BF
Planning appeal 3287673 at Mobile Home at Robertsons Nursery, Goldsel Road, Swanley, BR8 8BF (Sevenoaks District Council) was dismissed on 14 December 2022 by Inspector Caine M, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to relevant development plan policies and the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework).
Construction of a stable block and an associated path
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- agricultural · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Caine M
- Postcode
- BR8 8BF
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to relevant development plan policies and the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework)
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- Whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The appellants failed to demonstrate an essential need for the stable to be located on the appeal site, so the benefits carried insufficient weight to outweigh the substantial Green Belt harm.
the modest weight attributed to the operational business needs and other benefits did not clearly outweigh the substantial harm arising from inappropriateness and the limited harm to openness, so very special circumstances were not demonstrated
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy LT2 of the Sevenoaks Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015Policy LO 8 of the Sevenoaks Core Strategy 2011Development in the Green Belt Supplementary Planning Document 2015
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 149Paragraph 137
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.
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