®Planning appeal decision
Woodland Park, School Lane, Fawkham, Kent, DA3 8NY
a storage building
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Shearing C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- Effects on ancient woodland and protected species
- Effects on highway safety
- 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 would cause harm to the Green Belt by reducing its openness and would have potentially harmful effects on ancient woodland and protected species, with no evidence of wholly exceptional reasons or suitable compensation strategy, and no other considerations of sufficient weight to clearly outweigh this harm.
Framework references: 154, 186
Plan policies cited: Policy SP11 of the Sevenoaks Core Strategy 2011, Policy EN1 of the Sevenoaks Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015
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.