Land Adjacent Hilltop, 353 Tanworth Lane, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4DU

demolition of outbuilding, erection of 2no. new build dwellings including associated access/highways alterations and landscaping

Authority: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Rawle S

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposal would be inappropriate in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any other relevant development plan policies
the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, or other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the development

What decided it

The proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt that would cause substantial harm to openness, and this harm is not clearly outweighed by other considerations including the housing land supply shortfall, such that very special circumstances do not exist to justify the development.

The substantial harm to the Green Belt through inappropriateness and loss of openness was not clearly outweighed by the moderate social and economic benefits of two new dwellings and the housing land supply shortfall, therefore the balance did not favour the proposal.

Framework references: 11, 147, 148, 149

Plan policies cited: Policy P17

Judgments cited: Julian Wood v The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and Gravesham Borough Council [2015] EWCA Civ 195

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