®Planning appeal decision
Colemans Farm, Toot Hill Road, ONGAR, Essex, CM5 9QN
the demolition of agricultural buildings, construction of two detached houses, extension to dairy cottage garden, provision of boundary treatment and hard and soft landscaping without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref EPF/3065/18, dated 14 January 2019
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Allen K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether amending condition 2 would affect whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt in respect of local and national policy
- The effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect of the proposal on the Grade II listed Colemans Farmhouse
- If it is 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
What decided it
The positive effect on the setting of the Grade II listed Colemans Farmhouse, combined with the fallback positions of extant permissions for similar houses, clearly outweighs the harm by reason of inappropriateness and constitutes very special circumstances.
Plan policies cited: Policy DM4, Policy DM7
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