®Planning appeal decision
Valentine Cottage, Ethelbert Road, ROCHFORD, Essex, SS4 3JS
Proposed new dwelling and associated development
- Authority
- Rochford District 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 proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect on openness and the purpose of the Green Belt
- Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by any 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 because it does not fall within any of the exceptions in paragraph 149 of the Framework, and the harm to openness and the purposes of the Green Belt is not clearly outweighed by other considerations.
The substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and loss of openness was not clearly outweighed by the neutral factors (character, living conditions, highway safety) and the benefit of contributing to housing supply.
Framework references: 137, 138, 147, 148, 149
Plan policies cited: CS Policy GB1
Judgments cited: Julian Wood v SSCLG, Gravesham Borough Council [2015] EWCA Civ 195
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