®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed24 March 20253345477
Oakwood Hall, C257 Holeyn Hall Road To Hexham Road, Wylam, Northumberland, NE41 8BH
‘Construction of detached garage building within curtilage of the listed building’
- Authority
- Northumberland County Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- McDonagh C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposals would constitute inappropriate development in the green belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the proposals on the openness of the Green Belt
- The effect of the proposals on the setting of a listed building
- The effect of the proposals on biodiversity
- 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 proposed developments
What decided it
The combination of inappropriate Green Belt development, harm to the listed building's setting, and unmitigated biodiversity impacts could not be outweighed by any other considerations, and no very special circumstances existed to justify the proposals.
Framework references: 154, 155, 142, 212, 215, 187, 153
Plan policies cited: STP7, STP8, ENV1, ENV7, QOP4, ENV2
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.