Land Adjoining 39 Parish Hill, Bournheath, Bromsgrove, B61 9JH

Planning appeal 3332459 at Land Adjoining 39 Parish Hill, Bournheath, Bromsgrove, B61 9JH (Bromsgrove District Council) was allowed on 26 September 2024 by Inspector Sibley G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site is suitable for residential development having regard to its location, the proposed land use and the amount of development proposed, with particular reference to whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies.

infill residential development of up to 2 dwellings

Authority: Bromsgrove District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Sibley G
Postcode: B61 9JH

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site is suitable for residential development having regard to its location, the proposed land use and the amount of development proposed, with particular reference to whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies

What decided it

The site, although outside the settlement boundary, forms part of Bournheath village due to its physical relationship to existing development and the pattern of sporadic fields between properties in the area, and the proposal for up to 2 dwellings constitutes limited infilling permitted under NPPF paragraph 154e and BDP Policy BDP4.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: BDP4
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 154eParagraph 154gParagraph 70

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

34 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Bromsgrove District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2024

Allowed18 September 20266011097
7 Churchfields Road, Bromsgrove, B61 8EB
Allowed29 May 20266004815
Wythall Business Centre, May Lane, Wythall, Hollywood, B47 5PD
Allowed4 December 20253371634
Land At Elmwood Grove, Hollywood, Worcestershire, B47 5DS
Allowed15 August 20253356219
Land At South Side Of Houndsfield Lane, Hollywood, Worcestershire, B47 5QY
Allowed19 June 20253354949
Alvechurch Inn , Radford Road, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7LD

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.