®Planning appeal decision
Keepers Cottage, Solesbridge Lane, Chorleywood, WD3 5SU
Without planning permission the carrying out on the land of engineering operations compromising the excavation of land and creation of earth bunds ("the works")
- Authority
- Three Rivers District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Kean G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the works constitute development requiring planning permission
- Whether the works fall within permitted development
- Whether planning permission should be granted on ground (a) having regard to Green Belt and National Landscape considerations
What decided it
The Inspector's assessment that the depth and spatial extent of the works have not produced harmful effects that conflict with national guidance and local plan policy regarding Green Belt openness and National Landscape protection.
The modest visual and physical intrusion of the works, when weighed against Green Belt and National Landscape protection objectives, does not result in harm sufficient to warrant refusal; the works preserve openness and do not conflict with the purposes of Green Belt designation.
Framework references: 154, 189
Plan policies cited: Policy CP11 of the Core Strategy (adopted October 2011), Policies DM2 and DM7 of the Development Management Policies LDD (adopted July 2013)
Judgments cited: R. (Dennis) v Sevenoaks DC [2004] EWHC 2758 (Admin); Prengate Properties Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment (1973) 25 P. & C.R. 311
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.