Motocross Track, Shootersway, Berkhamsted, Herts, HP4 3TY

removal of a tower mast and associated cabins, relocation of two storage containers into a building with accommodation facilities at first floor and construction of a swimming pool building without complying with conditions attached to planning permission Ref 4/02425/18/FUL

Authority: Dacorum Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: leisure-sport · Other minor developments
Inspector: Buchanan R

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

The main issues in this appeal are therefore whether conditions No.5 and No.7 are necessary, having regard to the reasons given for them and matters that emerged during the appeal process, including at the hearing.

What decided it

Both disputed conditions were found still necessary to prevent unassessed harm to nationally important archaeology (condition 5) and unassessed intensification impacts from the bunkhouse use (condition 7), so the appeal to vary them failed.

Plan policies cited: Saved Policy 118 of the Local Plan (2004), Policy CS5, Policy CS12

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