®Planning appeal decision
Hollywell Lane/Whettybridge Road, Rubery, Birmingham, West Midlands, B45 9EJ
2 pairs of 3 bed semi-detached dwellings 4 dwellings in total
- Authority
- Bromsgrove District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Watson S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- Whether the proposal would provide a suitable standard of living conditions for future occupiers and what effect it would have on neighbouring occupiers
- Whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The proposal constitutes inappropriate development in the Green Belt that would harm openness and neighbouring living conditions, and the modest benefits of housing delivery do not clearly outweigh this substantial harm to justify very special circumstances.
the substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, loss of openness, and harm to neighbouring living conditions outweighed the moderate benefits of housing delivery and economic benefits, such that very special circumstances do not exist
Framework references: 11, 135, 142, 143, 152, 153, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: BDP4
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