Spring Wood Stables, New Road, Escrick, YORK, YO19 6EZ

as follows: Without planning permission the laying of hardstanding on undeveloped land within the York Green Belt

Authority: City of York Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: other · Householder developments
Inspector: Wharton T

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the hardstanding constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the NPPF and development plan policy, with particular reference to whether it preserves its openness and does not conflict with the purposes of allowing land within it
The effect on the character and appearance of the area
If the building does represent 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 within the Green Belt

What decided it

The hardstanding has not preserved the openness of the Green Belt and constitutes inappropriate development harmful by definition, with no very special circumstances sufficient to justify an exception to Green Belt policy.

Framework references: 150, 11

Plan policies cited: YH9(C), Y1(C1), Y1(C2), SS2, GB1

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