®Planning appeal decision
Whipley Manor Farm Workshop, Whipley Manor Farm, Aldershot Road, Normandy, Surrey, GU3 2BE
the change of use of an area of hard surface directly adjacent to the workshop to allow the parking of non-agricultural vehicles, plant and machinery and the storage of material ancillary to the operation of the site as a workshop
- Authority
- Guildford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Phillips B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the development on character and appearance of the surroundings
- if the development would be inappropriate, whether the harm to the Green Belt by way of inappropriateness and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The change of use harms the openness of the Green Belt and conflicts with its purposes by encroaching on the countryside, and the modest business benefits do not clearly outweigh this substantial harm or the harm to character and appearance.
Framework references: 143, 152, 153, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy P2, Policy D1
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.