®Planning appeal decision
Allowed7 March 20243323376
Woodend Farm Grain Stores, Woodend Lane, Markyate, AL3 8AY
the change of use of an agricultural building to low-key storage (Use Class B8) including installation of personnel door
- Authority
- Dacorum Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Rawle S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would amount to an acceptable use in this location having regard to local and national policies relating to development within rural areas
- whether the subdivision of the farm complex and proposed use would harm the natural beauty or tranquillity of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
What decided it
The fallback position of prior approval for B8 use on two-thirds of the building, combined with the minimal physical alteration required and the proposal's accordance with rural development policies, outweighed the Council's concerns about the AONB.
Plan policies cited: Policy CS7, Policy CS1, Policy CS14, Policy CS24, Policy DP2
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