®Planning appeal decision
Seafield, 25 Castlefields, Leasowe, Merseyside, CH46 3RL
‘It is proposed that the existing three buildings (as shown on the existing site plan provided) be taken down and a new detached dwelling be erected for use by a single family’
- Authority
- Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Hitchcock R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and the relevant development plan policy
- if the development is inappropriate, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness and any other harm is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What decided it
The proposal would cause material harm to the spatial and visual openness of the Green Belt through substantially greater height and massing, and the fallback position and other considerations presented did not amount to very special circumstances sufficient to justify the inappropriate development.
Framework references: 149, 38
Plan policies cited: GB2, GB4
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