®Planning appeal decision
Keepers Cottage, Solesbridge Lane, Chorleywood, WD3 5SU
Planning appeal 3319401 at Keepers Cottage, Solesbridge Lane, Chorleywood, WD3 5SU (Three Rivers District Council) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 29 May 2025 by Inspector Kean G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the works constitute development requiring planning permission.
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
- Postcode
- WD3 5SU
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.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CP11 of the Core Strategy (adopted October 2011)Policies DM2 and DM7 of the Development Management Policies LDD (adopted July 2013)
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 154Paragraph 189
- Judgments
- 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
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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