®Planning appeal decision
Land adjacent to Forest Moor farm, Forest Moor Road, Knaresborough , HG5 8LT
Change of use from stables/ store/ hardstanding into 1No. 2 bedroom house
- Authority
- Harrogate Borough Council *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Jones H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development amounts to inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies and any effects upon openness
- Whether any 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 proposal
What decided it
The building on site has not been shown to be of permanent construction and therefore does not meet the exception at NPPF paragraph 150(d), constituting inappropriate development in the Green Belt which cannot be justified by the other considerations advanced.
The substantial harm from inappropriateness in the Green Belt was not clearly outweighed by the limited weight attributed to housing supply contribution, the absence of evidence for self-build status, the neutral sustainability of location, and the absence of other harms.
Framework references: 147, 148, 149, 150, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy GS4
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