®Planning appeal decision
Dismissed24 December 20243349455
8 Hillcrest Rise, Harthill, Rotherham, S26 7ZE
for the change of use of land to residential garden area including fencing, erection of external staircase and raised patio and alterations to access
- Authority
- Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Spataru A
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.
Framework references: 143, 154
Plan policies cited: Policy CS 4, Policy SP 2
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.