®Planning appeal decision
Tap Farm, Orestan Lane, Effingham, Surrey, KT24 5SL
change of use to allow dog walking/training in association with the permitted dog day care use and retention of mobile home, shepherds huts, portaloo, parking area and dog exercise enclosures and continued use of approved dog day care uses on site
- Authority
- Guildford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Unknown
- Inspector
- Bale M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt, with regard to openness and the purposes of the Green Belt
- The effect 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 mobile home and wooden hut are necessary welfare facilities that interrupt openness and fail to preserve the Green Belt's purpose of protecting countryside from encroachment, and the limited weight given to other considerations cannot clearly outweigh this harm.
Plan policies cited: Policy P2, Policy D1, Policy D4, Policy ENP-G2
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