®Planning appeal decision
Allowed24 April 20243333906
The Penn Thame Road, Great Milton, OXFORD, OX44 7HX
extension and conversion of roof to create habitable room within roof void
- Authority
- South Oxfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Seddon M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development represents inappropriate development in the Green Belt
- the effect on the character and appearance of the building and area
- the effect on openness
- whether other considerations clearly outweigh the harm to the Green Belt, and any other harm, so as to amount to very special circumstances
What decided it
The real prospect that prior approval schemes involving greater harm to character and appearance could be implemented as a fallback, making the appeal proposal the lesser harm option, constituted very special circumstances that clearly outweighed the identified harm to the Green Belt.
Framework references: 152, 153, 154
Plan policies cited: STRAT6, H20, DES1, DES2
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