Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed19 April 20243333546

Bassetts Lookout, Bowes Equestrian Centre, North Side, Birtley, Gateshead, DH3 1RF

Planning appeal 3333546 at Bassetts Lookout, Bowes Equestrian Centre, North Side, Birtley, Gateshead, DH3 1RF (Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 19 April 2024 by Inspector Caines A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt including the effect on openness and purposes of Green Belt.

weather protection on part of an equestrian outdoor recreation facility

Authority
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Caines A
Postcode
DH3 1RF

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether the proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt including the effect on openness and purposes of Green Belt
  • the effect on the character and appearance of the area

What decided it

The proposal qualifies as an appropriate facility under paragraph 154(b) of the Framework for outdoor sport and recreation, preserves Green Belt openness, does not conflict with Green Belt purposes, and would not harm the character and appearance of the area.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CS19Policy MSGP33
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 143Paragraph 154

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

25 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 Gateshead

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

  1. Dismissed21 September 20266008659
    Land North Of Willies Well, Crawcrook, Ryton, NE41 8JL
  2. Dismissed14 April 20266003805
    The House, Schoolhouse Lane, Byermoor, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE16 5AN
  3. Dismissed26 February 20266001738
    51 Cornmoor Road, Whickham, Gateshead Borough, Gateshead Borough, NE16 4PU
  4. Dismissed24 December 20253373808
    Agricultural Building North West of Pockerley Riding School, Birtley, Gateshead, DH9 0RZ
  5. Allowed16 December 20253372581
    The Cottage, Mansion Heights, Dunston Hill, Whickham, Gateshead Borough, NE11 9DL

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.