®Planning appeal decision
Oaklands, Gloucester Road, Staverton, CHELTENHAM, Gloucestershire, GL51 0TF
provision of an agricultural building with a reduced area of hardstanding and re-surfaced access track (including part retention of works) and removal of 2 small brick buildings, removal of all external lighting and CCTV equipment and removal of 2.2 metre close boarded fencing that encloses the existing yard to be replaced with new 1.2m high post and rail fencing
- Authority
- Tewkesbury Borough Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Ford K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the agricultural building and boundary treatments are inappropriate development for the purposes of the development plan policy and the NPPF
- The effect of the agricultural building and boundary treatments on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect on the character and appearance of the area as a result of the boundary treatments fronting onto the B4063 and around the residential property, Oaklands
- If the agricultural building or boundary treatments are inappropriate development whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The development constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt which by definition is harmful, and the other considerations do not clearly outweigh the totality of the harm caused, so very special circumstances do not exist.
Framework references: 142, 152, 153, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy GRB4, Policy SD5, Policy AGR1, Policy LAN2, Policy RES10, Policy SD4, Policy SD6
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