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Notice varied and upheld4 March 20253335970

Stampwell Farm, Oxford Road, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2DX

Planning appeal 3335970 at Stampwell Farm, Oxford Road, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2DX (Buckinghamshire Council - Chiltern Area *) was allowed in part (a split decision) on 4 March 2025 by Inspector Harbottle M, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the MCU is inappropriate development within the Green Belt (GB) having regard to the effect on the openness and purposes of including land in the GB and, as necessary, sustainable development principles and the effect on the setting of designated heritage assets.

Without planning permission, a material change of use of the land to a mixed use comprising agriculture, residential, coffee bean processing, community facility for worship and leisure purposes and integral to that use, operational development comprising the erection of a marquee and play equipment

Authority
Buckinghamshire Council - Chiltern Area *
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
community-institutional · Change of use
Inspector
Harbottle M
Postcode
HP9 2XD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the MCU is inappropriate development within the Green Belt (GB) having regard to the effect on the openness and purposes of including land in the GB and, as necessary, sustainable development principles and the effect on the setting of designated heritage assets.
  • The suitability of the vehicular access from Oxford Road.
  • Any support provided to the rural economy.
  • If the MCU constitutes inappropriate development, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, and so amounts to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal ("the GB balance").

What decided it

The worship use failed criteria b and c of paragraph 155 (no demonstrable unmet need and an unsustainable location for non-car access) and so remained inappropriate Green Belt development without very special circumstances, whereas the coffee bean processing use in an existing building was not inappropriate development.

The private benefit of the rural/agricultural link to the church's worship did not clearly outweigh the substantial harm from inappropriate Green Belt development and the harm arising from poor transport accessibility, so the worship use was refused, while the coffee bean processing use, complying with the development plan, was permitted.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
GB2GB29CS19CS1CS4CS29TR2
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 154Paragraph 155Paragraph 110Paragraph 115
Judgments
Wealden DC v SSE & Innocent [1983] JPL 234; Avon Estates Ltd v Welsh Ministers & Ceredigion CC [2011] EWCA Civ 553

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.

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