®Planning appeal decision
Belmont Mill Hill Junior School, The Ridgeway, LONDON, NW7 4ED
construction of a new artificial grass hockey pitch with associated fencing, floodlighting, service/access road/footpath and drainage
- Authority
- London Borough of Barnet
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Wilson L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area, including whether it would preserve or enhance the character or appearance of the Mill Hill Conservation Area
- The effect of the proposal on biodiversity
- The effect of the proposal on the school's playing fields provision
- Whether or not the proposal would ensure the safety of future users
- 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 would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt that would cause spatial and visual harm to openness, and would cause harm to biodiversity through failure to follow the mitigation hierarchy, and these harms were not clearly outweighed by the limited benefits advanced.
Framework references: 95, 99, 148, 149, 150, 180
Plan policies cited: Policy CS NPPF, Policy CS1, Policy CS5, Policy CS7, Policy DM01, Policy DM06, Policy DM15, Policy DM16, Policy G2, Policy G4, Policy G6, Policy S1, Policy S3, Policy S5, Policy D3, Policy HC1
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