®Planning appeal decision
Former Pumping Station, Broad Lane, Collins Green, Warrington, Cheshire, WA5 4AE
‘the change of use of land for use as a part family traveller site (4 trailer caravans/ 1 static & amenity blocks) and part transit site (3 trailer caravans), along with the keeping of horses landscaping with access off Broad Lane, following the removal of the pumping station building, concrete hardstanding’s, storage sheds waste material and associated commercial paraphernalia.’
- Authority
- Warrington Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hendley D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework (Framework) and the development plan policy
- the effect on the openness and purposes of the Green Belt
- the effect on the living conditions of the site occupiers with regard to land stability and safety
- the effect on highway safety by way of the proposed access arrangements
- if it is inappropriate development, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What decided it
The combined and substantial Green Belt harm, together with unmitigated land stability/mine shaft safety risk and highway safety harm, was not clearly outweighed by the other considerations, so very special circumstances did not exist.
The other considerations (pitch need/supply shortfall, lack of alternative sites, personal circumstances) did not clearly outweigh the totality of the Green Belt harm, land stability/safety harm and highway safety harm, so very special circumstances did not exist and the appeal was dismissed.
Framework references: 152, 142, 143, 154, 189, 190, 153
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1, Policy DEV3, Policy DC6, Policy ENV8, Policy INF1
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