®Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent to Tobits, Mount Road, Werneth Low, Hyde, SK14 3AH
Planning appeal 3318999 at Land Adjacent to Tobits, Mount Road, Werneth Low, Hyde, SK14 3AH (Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 31 August 2023 by Inspector Spataru A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and the development plan policy.
for the erection of one detached infill dwelling
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Spataru A
- Postcode
- SK14 3AH
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework and the development plan policy
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- If the development would be inappropriate, whether the harm to the Green Belt by way of inappropriateness and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The appeal site is not located within a village and therefore the proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt which, combined with harm to openness, is not clearly outweighed by other considerations including housing supply benefits.
The harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and limited harm to openness was not clearly outweighed by the contribution to housing supply and other benefits, such that very special circumstances do not exist.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy 1.10Policy OL1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 149Paragraph 219
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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