Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed24 April 20243332671

Land West of Honiley Road (A4177), Honiley, Kenilworth

Planning appeal 3332671 at Land West of Honiley Road (A4177), Honiley, Kenilworth (Warwick District Council) was allowed on 24 April 2024 by Inspector Parker C, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt and its effect on openness.

Installation of a solar farm and battery storage facility with associated infrastructure

Authority
Warwick District Council
Appeal type
other · Called In Planning Application
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
utilities-energy · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Parker C

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt and its effect on openness
  • Effect on Green Belt purposes
  • Character and appearance, including landscape
  • Effect on heritage assets
  • Whether the benefits of the scheme amount to Very Special Circumstances sufficient to outweigh the harm to the Green Belt and any other harm

What decided it

The substantial weight attributed to the renewable energy and biodiversity net gain benefits, taken together with other material considerations, clearly outweighed the substantial harm to the Green Belt, establishing Very Special Circumstances justifying the grant of permission.

The substantial benefits of renewable energy generation and biodiversity net gain, together with moderate and limited weight benefits, clearly outweighed the substantial harm to the Green Belt, the great weight heritage harm and the limited landscape harm, so that Very Special Circumstances existed and permission was granted.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DS5Policy DS18Policy NE4Policy CC2Policy BE1Policy HE4Policy FW1Policy SC0Policy TR1Policy BE3Policy NE1Policy NE2Policy NE3Policy HS1Policy NE5
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 48Paragraph 55Paragraph 56Paragraph 143Paragraph 152Paragraph 153Paragraph 154Paragraph 155Paragraph 156Paragraph 157Paragraph 159Paragraph 160Paragraph 163Paragraph 180Paragraph 186Paragraph 205Paragraph 208

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

17 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 Warwick

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

  1. Dismissed28 September 20266011601
    Quince Cottage, 4 The Bank, Stoneleigh, CV8 3DA
  2. Dismissed23 September 20266006637
    Land off Oakdene Crescent, Hatton, Warwick, CV35 7BN
  3. Allowed2 September 20266007651
    Land to the South of Harbury Lane, Warwick, CV34 7BR
  4. Allowed18 August 20266002759
    Land South of, Westwood Heath Road, Coventry, CV4 8LG
  5. Allowed27 July 20266004371
    South Side, Wharf Lane, Lapworth, B94 6NR

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.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.