®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed5 December 20243345553
Catahoula Fields Eglantine Lane, Farningham, Kent, DA4 9JL
‘temporary part covered external storage facility with hardstanding for vehicular access and two containers’
- Authority
- Sevenoaks District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Shearing C
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effects of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area
- 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 proposal
What decided it
The substantial and unmitigated harm to Green Belt openness and rural character, combined with the absence of very special circumstances to justify inappropriate development, necessitated dismissal of the appeal.
Framework references: 154, 155, 11
Plan policies cited: Policy EN1 of the Sevenoaks Allocations and Development Management Plan 2015
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.