®Planning appeal decision
Land at 17 Hill Top Road, Acton Bridge, NORTHWICH, Cheshire, CW8 3RA
without planning permission, the material change of use of the land from a dwellinghouse and residential garden, that includes an existing outbuilding, to a mixed use of a dwellinghouse, garden and siting of shepherd's hut for holiday and short term let accommodation and partial use of the existing outbuilding for bathroom facilities in association with the holiday and short term let accommodation ("the unauthorised development")
- Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Moore D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and relevant development plan policies
- The effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect of the development on the living conditions of neighbouring occupiers, with regard to noise and disturbance, and privacy
- 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 required to justify the development
What decided it
The development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt which is by definition harmful and carries substantial weight, and this harm is not clearly outweighed by other considerations.
Framework references: 150
Plan policies cited: STRAT9, ECON3, DM9, SOC5, DM2
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