®Planning appeal decision
Back Lane, Hebden Bridge, Ripponden, HX7 7PF
‘Without planning permission, Breach 1: The construction of two buildings on the Land Breach 2: The erection of a silo on the Land Breach 3: The erection of five shipping containers on the Land Breach 4: Engineering operations consisting of the formation of a vehicular access track on the Land from Back Lane Breach 5: The undertaking of engineering operations on the Land being excavation and the raising of ground levels creating three artificial platforms Breach 6: The laying of hardstanding on the Land’
- Authority
- Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
- Inspector
- Hitchcock R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development is inappropriate in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- the effects on biodiversity, including the likely effects on the South Pennine Moors Phase II Special Protection Area (SPA), the South Pennine Moors Special Area of Conservation (SAC), and the South Pennine Moors Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)
- flood risk and ground stability relating to drainage at the site
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the development
What decided it
The potential adverse effects on the integrity of the neighbouring habitats sites and functionally linked land, and the local Wildlife Habitat Network, which could not be ruled out due to insufficient ecological assessment and absence of baseline bird data, outweighed the appellant's case.
Framework references: 11, 13, 15, 154, 193
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1, Policy GN3, Policy CC2, Policy CC3
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