®Planning appeal decision
Badger Butts, Mill Lane, Willaston Neston, CH64 1RG
the demolition of existing detached garage and conversion of existing swimming pool building and gymnasium building to 3 no. independent dwellings
- Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- 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
- whether or not the site would provide a suitable location for housing
- the effect of the implementation of the proposed scheme and a development of a dwelling and garage previously approved on the site
- 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 existing building lacked the substantial construction necessary to qualify as re-use under NPPF paragraph 150, rendering the proposal inappropriate development in the Green Belt, and the identified benefits did not clearly outweigh this harm and the conflict with the Council's spatial strategy for housing distribution.
the benefits of housing provision, diversity, economic contribution and sustainable location did not clearly outweigh the harm from inappropriateness in the Green Belt and conflict with the Council's adopted spatial strategy for managing housing delivery and protecting the countryside
Framework references: 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy STRAT 9, Policy DM 22, Policy STRAT 8, Policy STRAT 10, Policy ENV 6, Policy SOC 5, Policy DM 2, Policy DM 3
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