®Planning appeal decision
Land at Firs Farm, 244 Old Birmingham Road, Marlbrook, B60 1NS
‘Without planning permission, the importation and deposition of material (including but not limited to) soil and rubble, and consequential engineering operations to create a hard standing in association with open storage use in the approximate location coloured black on the Plan, hereby referred to as ‘the unauthorised development’
- Authority
- Bromsgrove District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Higenbottam H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the development plan and the National Planning Policy Framework and effect on openness
- The effect of the entrance gates and boundary wall on the character and appearance of the area
- If inappropriate development, whether any harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the development
What decided it
The development has a material adverse impact on the openness of the Green Belt and constitutes inappropriate development for which no very special circumstances have been demonstrated.
The harms to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and harm to character and appearance were not clearly outweighed by any other considerations, and very special circumstances do not exist to justify the development.
Framework references: 155
Plan policies cited: Policy BDP4, Policy BDP19, High Quality SPD
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