®Planning appeal decision
The Gallops Elm Lane, Roxwell, CHELMSFORD, CM1 4NJ
change of use of land to residential garden and construction of outbuilding. Retrospective application for construction of car port and outbuilding
- Authority
- Chelmsford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Dyer I
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework 2021 and relevant development plan policies, including any relevant effects on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect of the proposed development on the setting of Mountneys, a Grade II Listed Building
- Whether the 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 would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt causing significant harm to openness and the countryside, combined with less than substantial harm to the setting of a Grade II Listed Building, with insufficient public benefits to outweigh these harms and establish very special circumstances.
Framework references: 149, 150, 147, 148, 202
Plan policies cited: Policy S1, Policy S11, Policy DM10, Policy DM6, Policy DM13
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