LA Sports Club, St Dunstan's Lane, Beckenham, BR3 3SS

to convert an existing garage/store to create a café with canopy over external seating area for use only by the Sports Club when sports and recreational activities take place

Authority: London Borough of Bromley
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector: Reid L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposal is inappropriate development on Metropolitan Open Land having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and development plan policies, including the effect on openness
the effect of the development on flood risk
if the development is inappropriate, 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 is inappropriate development on Metropolitan Open Land that fails to preserve openness and causes moderate flood risk harm, and the benefits to the sports club do not clearly outweigh these harms to constitute very special circumstances.

Framework references: 154, 173

Plan policies cited: Policy 50, Policy 115, Policy 49, Policy G3, Policy S1 12

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