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Allowed9 December 20243347340

Godstone Golf Club Rooks Nest, Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8BY

Planning appeal 3347340 at Godstone Golf Club Rooks Nest, Godstone, Surrey, RH9 8BY (Tandridge District Council) was allowed on 9 December 2024 by Inspector Wilkinson S, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether or not the appeal scheme is inappropriate development and the effect of the proposal on openness and the purposes of including land within the Green Belt.

Restoration of former M25 works compound to create new 300 yard practice ground with 8 covered bays and teaching studio, new practice bunker, grass practice tee and short game area, provision of conveyance swales and three attenuation ponds. Associated ecological enhancements including the planting of 4,049 sqm of wildflower meadow and 2,440 trees

Authority
Tandridge District Council
Appeal type
other · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
leisure-sport · Unknown
Inspector
Wilkinson S
Postcode
RH9 8BY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether or not the appeal scheme is inappropriate development and the effect of the proposal on openness and the purposes of including land within the Green Belt
  • The effect of the scheme on the landscape character and appearance of the area
  • Whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations such as to provide the very special circumstances required to justify development in the Green Belt

What decided it

The economic, social and especially environmental benefits (restoration of a despoiled site with significant biodiversity net gain) were found to clearly outweigh the limited harm to Green Belt openness, establishing very special circumstances.

the economic, social and environmental benefits of the scheme clearly outweighed the limited harm to the openness of the Green Belt, so that very special circumstances existed to justify the inappropriate development

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
DP10DP13CSP18DP7CSP17DP19
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 153Paragraph 154Paragraph 155Paragraph 143Paragraph 180Paragraph 205Paragraph 96Paragraph 102Paragraph 85Paragraph 150Paragraph 194

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