®Planning appeal decision
Hainault Hall, Lambourne Road, Chigwell, Essex, IG7 6JU
without planning permission, the installation of a swimming pool
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Howell M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
- The effect of the development on the living conditions of the occupants of Maypole Drive, Lambourne Road and Crosby Court having regard to outlook, privacy, light, noise and disturbance
What decided it
The swimming pool, as an engineering operation located within an established residential garden area and largely below ground level, preserves the openness of the Green Belt and falls within the exception in Policy DM4(d)(ii) and paragraph 154(h)(ii) of the Framework, and does not adversely affect neighbours' living conditions.
Framework references: 142, 154
Plan policies cited: Policy DM4, Policy DM9, Policy D9(iii)
Judgments cited: R (Gleeson Developments Limited) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (2014)
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