®Planning appeal decision
New Wick Farm Wakering Road, Great Wakering, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, SS3 0QA
demolition of an agricultural style building comprising Demolition Contractors Yard, and E (g) Class Use as a Gymnasium to allow for the erection of 3no. dwellings with associated parking
- Authority
- Southend-on-Sea City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wallace J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework including the effect upon the openness of the Green Belt
- the effect of the proposal on the supply of employment land
- the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- whether any 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 proposal
What decided it
The proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt with greater impact on openness than the existing development, and the benefits do not clearly outweigh this harm and the harm to employment land supply, so very special circumstances do not exist.
The substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and harm to employment land supply were not clearly outweighed by the moderate benefits of housing delivery and limited weight to permitted development fallback, so the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
Framework references: 137, 147, 149, 148, 11
Plan policies cited: CS Policy CP4, CS Policy KP1, CS Policy GB1, CS Policy CP1, DMD Policy DM11, CS Policy KP2, DMD Policy DM10, CS Policy KP2, CS Policy CP4, DMP Policy DM1, DMP Policy DM3
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