®Planning appeal decision
Land west of Hams Hall roundabout and south of Marsh Lane, Curdworth, B76 0AA
outline application for an overnight truck stop comprising 200 HGV spaces and associated facilities including fuel refuelling station, amenities building, electric vehicle charging points, staff and other car parking, and landscaping. Including details of vehicular access from Marsh Lane, all other matters reserved
- Authority
- North Warwickshire Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- employment-industrial · Major retail and services
- Inspector
- Housden S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether or not the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt and if inappropriate, the effect on openness and on Green Belt purposes
- The effect on the form and character of the area, having particular regard to the effect on landscape character
- The effect on the living conditions of nearby residents
- Whether or not any harm arising from inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, including any public benefits, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The very substantial combined weight of Green Belt inappropriateness and landscape harm was not clearly outweighed by the other considerations, so very special circumstances did not exist.
The significant weight given to the need for HGV parking facilities and moderate weight to biodiversity gains did not clearly outweigh the very substantial weight against the proposal arising from Green Belt inappropriateness combined with moderate landscape character harm.
Framework references: 154, 155, 113, 180
Plan policies cited: Policy LP3, Policy LP1, Policy LP14, Policy LP29, Policy LP30, Policy LP34, Policy LP16
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.