®Planning appeal decision
8 Hillcrest Rise, Harthill, Rotherham, S26 7ZE
Planning appeal 3349455 at 8 Hillcrest Rise, Harthill, Rotherham, S26 7ZE (Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 24 December 2024 by Inspector Spataru A, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies, including its effects on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land in it.
for the change of use of land to residential garden area including fencing, erection of external staircase and raised patio and alterations to access
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Spataru A
- Postcode
- S26 7ZE
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies, including its effects on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land in it
- If the development would be inappropriate, whether the harm to the Green Belt by way of inappropriateness and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The development fails to preserve the openness of the Green Belt and results in encroachment into previously undeveloped countryside, constituting inappropriate development for which no very special circumstances have been demonstrated.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CS 4Policy SP 2
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 143Paragraph 154
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
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