®Planning appeal decision
Allowed6 July 20223294553
Hodge Clough Farm, Wilkes Street, OLDHAM, OL1 4JW
a single storey extension to existing detached garage
- Authority
- Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- McHugh I
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal development would be inappropriate development for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework 2021 and Development Plan Policy
- The effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
- The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
- If found to be inappropriate development, 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 appeal proposal does not constitute a disproportionate addition to the original building as defined in the Framework, and therefore is not inappropriate development in the Green Belt.
Framework references: 149
Plan policies cited: Policy 22 of the adopted Joint Core Strategy and Development Management Policies Development Plan Document 2011
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