22 Cockey Moor Road, BURY, BL8 2HB

the erection of a building to be used as a dwelling and a masonry constructed outbuilding on the land

Authority: Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type: enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Wharton T

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the dwelling 'As-Built' constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the NPPF and development plan policy
The effect on the openness of the Green Belt
The effect on the character and appearance of the area
The effect on the living conditions of neighbours
If the proposal does represent inappropriate development, whether the harm is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to very special circumstances necessary to justify the development within the Green Belt

What decided it

The excessive height, bulk and massing of the dwelling as built, particularly the three-storey rear elevation, constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt with unacceptable harm to openness, character and neighbouring amenity that cannot be justified by very special circumstances.

Framework references: 154

Plan policies cited: H2/1, H2/2, H2/6, EN1/2, EN9, HT2/4, EN5/1, OL1/2, HT6/2

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