®Planning appeal decision
Mylands Farm, Broxhill Road, Havering-atte-Bower, ROMFORD, RM4 1QH
demolition of two-storey residential annexe and separate storage building. Redevelopment of previously developed land to provide two new residential dwellings and a cart lodge with associated hard and soft landscaping
- Authority
- London Borough of Havering
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wilson L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies, including an assessment on the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- 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 constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt with no very special circumstances to outweigh the harm, and the Green Belt protection policies provide a clear reason for refusal under paragraph 11(d) of the Framework.
The harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, given substantial weight, was not clearly outweighed by the limited benefits of housing supply and self-build provision; the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply due to the clear reason for refusal provided by Green Belt protection policies
Framework references: 11, 137, 148, 149
Plan policies cited: Policy G2 of the London Plan
Judgments cited: Dartford BC v SSCLG [2017] EWCA Civ 141; Turner v SSCLG & East Dorset Council [2016] EWCA Civ 466; R (Liverpool Open and Green Spaces Community Interest Company) v Liverpool City Council [2020] EWCA Civ 81
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