®Planning appeal decision
Wood Platt Cottage, Chelford Road, Marthall, Knutsford, WA16 8TB
Planning appeal 3297439 at Wood Platt Cottage, Chelford Road, Marthall, Knutsford, WA16 8TB (Cheshire East) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 7 March 2024 by Inspector Whitfield J, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework) and any relevant development plan policies.
without planning permission, the erection of a building, the formation of areas of hard standing, the erection of concrete walls, the siting of portacabins and a weighbridge
- Authority
- Cheshire East
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- employment-industrial · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Whitfield J
- Postcode
- WA16 8TB
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework (the Framework) and any relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt
- if the development is inappropriate, whether any harm be 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 development
What decided it
The substantial Green Belt harm from inappropriateness and loss of openness was not clearly outweighed by the other considerations advanced (economic benefits and a fallback agricultural use), so very special circumstances did not exist.
substantial harm to the Green Belt through inappropriateness and loss of openness was not clearly outweighed by moderate-weight economic benefits and very-little-weight fallback agricultural use, so the balance tipped against granting planning permission
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy PG3Policy RUR13
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 151Paragraph 153Paragraph 154Paragraph 155Paragraph 142Paragraph 57
- Judgments
- Cardiff Rating Authority v Guest Keen Baldwin's Iron and Steel Co Ltd [1949] 1QB 385; Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd v SSETR (No.2) [2000] 2 PLR 102
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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