®Planning appeal decision
Land on the North West Side of Shaw Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3HG
Planning appeal 3336174 at Land on the North West Side of Shaw Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3HG (Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 2 August 2024 by Inspector Shields T, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect on the openness of the Green Belt.
Use of the land for the siting of two residential caravans and associated facilities without complying with condition 2 of planning permission 2011/0143
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Shields T
- Postcode
- S71 3HG
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect on the openness of the Green Belt
- the effect on the character and appearance of the area
- the effect on living conditions of local residents with regard to noise
- highway safety
- whether any harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the development
What decided it
The appellant's terminal illness and personal circumstances, combined with the lack of a five-year supply of deliverable Gypsy and Traveller pitches and absence of an alternative site, clearly outweighed the substantial Green Belt harm to establish very special circumstances.
The substantial harm from inappropriateness and the limited harm to openness of the Green Belt were clearly outweighed by the combined weight of the appellant's personal circumstances and the unmet need/lack of five-year pitch supply, amounting to very special circumstances justifying grant of a personal planning permission.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy GB1Policy GT1Policy GD1Policy D1Policy Poll1Policy T4
- Judgments
- Turner v SSCLG & East Dorset Council [2016] EWCA Civ 466; R (on the application of Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster) and others) (Respondents) v North Yorkshire County Council (Appellant) [2020] UKSC 3
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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