®Planning appeal decision
Singh Concrete Ltd, Beaver Depot Birtley Road, Bramley, GUILDFORD, GU5 0LA
Without planning permission: 1. The material change of use of the land from B8 (storage and distribution) to a mixed use of B2 (storage and distribution); 2. The erection of a building being a platform tower; and 3. An engineering operation consisting of the widening of an access by way of laying of hardstanding
- Authority
- Waverley Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Dignan P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and development plan policy.
- The effect on the openness of the Green Belt.
- The effect in relation to highway safety.
- The effect on residential amenity and biodiversity.
- If the development is inappropriate in the Green Belt, 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 substantial harm to the Green Belt (inappropriateness and loss of openness) and substantial harm to highway safety were not clearly outweighed by the other considerations, so very special circumstances did not exist.
The substantial Green Belt harm and substantial highway safety harm, together with moderate harm to character, were not clearly outweighed by the locational, economic, betterment and ecological benefits, so the appeal was dismissed.
Framework references: 110, 115, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: LP1 Policy TD1, LP2 Policy DM9, LP2 Policy RE2, LP1 Policy RE2
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