Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Notice upheld13 January 20253339794

Blanks Lane, Newdigate, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5ED

Planning appeal 3339794 at Blanks Lane, Newdigate, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 5ED (Mole Valley District Council) was dismissed on 13 January 2025 by Inspector Hocking P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether or not the developments constitute inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Agricultural developments including hardstandings, structures, sheds, polytunnels, low walled structure, storage containers and fencing on various parcels of land

Authority
Mole Valley District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
agricultural · Change of use
Inspector
Hocking P
Postcode
RH5 5ED

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether or not the developments constitute inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework
  • the effect of the developments on the character and appearance of the area
  • the effect of the developments on highway safety
  • if the development is inappropriate, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development

What decided it

The cumulative and individual harm to the character and appearance of the area caused by the ad hoc siting and makeshift appearance of the developments, which significantly detract from the rural landscape character despite being potentially required for agricultural purposes, outweighs any other considerations.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy EN1Policy EC6Policy S1Policy EN8Policy EN4Policy INF1
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 142Paragraph 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

57 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 Mole Valley District Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Dismissed20 October 20266013764
    Priory Lodge, River Lane, Leatherhead, KT22 0AU
  2. Dismissed19 October 20266011465
    Land to the South-East of Yarm Way, Leatherhead, KT22 8RQ
  3. Dismissed18 September 20266011498
    Woodstock House, Mole Street, Ockley, RH5 5PB
  4. Dismissed16 September 20266008528
    Henhurst Lodge, Beare Green Road, Beare Green, RH5 4PX
  5. Allowed11 September 20266012763
    Fourays, Horsham Road, Capel, Dorking, RH5 5LF

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.