®Planning appeal decision
Wilton Park, Park Lane, Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire, HP9 2WH
conversion of existing building into a one bed dwelling. Alterations to the access, removal of hard standing and replaced with soft landscaping
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Harrington S
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 and any effects on openness
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The appeal building's temporary planning permission status meant it could not be treated as permanent construction, and even if it could, the proposal would not preserve Green Belt openness, and the moderate benefit of one additional dwelling did not clearly outweigh the substantial harm to the Green Belt.
The moderate benefit of providing an additional dwelling to address the Council's housing land supply shortfall did not clearly outweigh the substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and loss of openness, and very special circumstances were not established.
Framework references: 11, 148, 149, 150
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1, Policy GB2
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