®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed8 July 20243327292
Meadow View, Murthering Lane, Navestock, Essex, RM4 1HL
Use of 4 x mobile homes during COVID 19 Pandemic (Retrospective) without complying with a condition attached to planning permission Ref 22/00035/FUL, dated 7 March 2022
- Authority
- Brentwood Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- other · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Wallace J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the condition is reasonable and necessary having regard to whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt
- the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land in the Green Belt
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness 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 harm to Green Belt openness caused by the continued siting of the mobile homes, combined with the absence of very special circumstances following the end of COVID-19 restrictions, justified dismissal of the appeal.
Framework references: 142, 143, 153
Plan policies cited: Strategic Policy MG02
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