Nutts Corner Stables , Pingot Lane, Frodsham, WA6 9FA

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

• There is no dispute the gypsy sites are inappropriate development in the green belt, but the impact on openness and on the landscape is in dispute
• The implementation of the Manley Road stables permission
• Impact on the landscape
• Whether the location of the site encourages travel by other than private car
• The impact on the setting of the listed Manley Knoll
• Intentional unauthorised development
• Previously developed land
• Whether there has been a failure of policy

What decided it

The combination of the Council's failure of policy in providing gypsy/traveller sites, the absence of alternative sites, and the appellants' personal circumstances and the best interests of their children tipped the balance in favour of a temporary five-year permission rather than a permanent permission or dismissal.

Substantial/considerable green belt, openness, encroachment and countryside harms, together with intentional unauthorised development, were found to outweigh the case for a permanent permission, but were outweighed for the purposes of a temporary five-year permission by the lack of a 5-year supply of gypsy/traveller sites, absence of alternative sites, the Council's failure of policy, and the great weight attached to the appellants' personal circumstances and the best interests of the children.