Land on the North East Side, Cockley Hill Lane, Huddersfield, HD5 0HH

Planning appeal 3307719 at Land on the North East Side, Cockley Hill Lane, Huddersfield, HD5 0HH (Kirklees Metropolitan Council) was dismissed on 30 May 2023 by Inspector Hartley D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the breach of planning control is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including its effect on openness and the purposes of the Green Belt.

without planning permission, the material change of use of the site to storage, including the storage of timber pallets, stone, plastic storage boxes, the erection of a sectional building (following excavation of the land) and the siting of a shipping container in order to facilitate the storage use

Authority: Kirklees Metropolitan Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector: Hartley D
Postcode: HD5 0HH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the breach of planning control is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including its effect on openness and the purposes of the Green Belt
The effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to very special circumstances

What decided it

The development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt causing substantial harm to openness and countryside character, with no very special circumstances identified to justify it.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: LP24
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 148Paragraph 149Paragraph 150Paragraph 174

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