®Planning appeal decision
Ramsden Park Farm, Ramsden Park Road, Ramsen Bellhouse Billericay, Essex, CM11 1NR
outline application for the conversion of the three existing stables at Ramsden Park Farm into three residential dwellings with all matters reserved except access
- Authority
- Basildon District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Cross D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, with due regard to openness
- The effect on the Essex Coastal Recreational Avoidance and Mitigation Strategy (RAMS) zone of influence
- If the development is inappropriate, 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 the development
What decided it
The projection of domestic curtilage and gardens into the Green Belt fields would harm openness and encroach on the countryside, and this substantial harm was not clearly outweighed by the moderate benefit of three dwellings in an area with no five-year housing land supply.
The substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness was not clearly outweighed by the moderate weight benefit of housing delivery, and very special circumstances were not established.
Framework references: 155, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Saved Policy BAS GB1, Saved Policy BAS GB7
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