®Planning appeal decision
Land off Mortimer Road, Midhopestones, Sheffield, South Yorks, S36 4GW
A development on currently waste land to include a community facility and café which would provide toilet and riding facilities
- Authority
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Minor retail and services
- Inspector
- Brook S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to any relevant development plan policies and the National Planning Policy Framework including, where appropriate, its effect on openness
- The effect of the proposed development upon biodiversity
- The effect of the proposed development upon highway safety
- If the development is inappropriate, whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The proposal would cause unacceptable harm to highway safety through insufficient parking provision combined with substantial harm to Green Belt openness and purposes, with the identified benefits insufficient to constitute very special circumstances.
Framework references: 149, 150, 111, 84, 85, 148
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1, Policy BIO1, Policy T3, Policy T4, Policy E5, Policy E6
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.