®Planning appeal decision
Allowed12 December 20243349818
Northfields Nursery and Garden Centre, Sewardstone Road, London, E4 7RG
the change of use from a horticultural nursery (Sui Generis Use Class) to a garden centre (Use Class E)
- Authority
- Epping Forest District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- retail · Change of use
- Inspector
- Glassar S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies including, where applicable, its effect on openness
- if the development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, 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 reuse of the existing buildings for a garden centre would preserve the openness of the Green Belt and not conflict with the purposes of including land within it, so the development was not inappropriate.
Framework references: 154, 155, 143
Plan policies cited: Policy DM4
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