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Allowed2 April 20253345744

Land at Illeybrook Farm, Illey Lane, Halesowen, B62 0HE

Planning appeal 3345744 at Land at Illeybrook Farm, Illey Lane, Halesowen, B62 0HE (Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 2 April 2025 by Inspector Thomas G, following a hearing.

Battery energy storage system (BESS) together with associated infrastructure, site levelling works, access onto Illey Lane and ancillary development thereto

Authority
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
utilities-energy · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Thomas G
Postcode
B62 0HE

What decided it

The Council's second reason for refusal referred to landscape context and cited landscape policies but the Council then offered no landscape evidence at the hearing, causing the appellant unnecessary expense in preparing landscape assessments.

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