®Planning appeal decision
Frodsham Receivers Station, Dobers Lane, Frodsham, WA6 6HA
conversion and change of use from agricultural barn to a single residential dwelling Class C3
- Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Moulton E
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the development would be inappropriate in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- If inappropriate development, 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 necessary to justify the proposal in the Green Belt
What decided it
The proposal is inappropriate development in the Green Belt that would harm its openness and purposes, and the moderate benefits from housing supply and economic activity do not clearly outweigh this substantial harm so as to constitute very special circumstances.
The substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and limited harm to its openness was not clearly outweighed by the moderate benefits of housing supply and economic/social benefits, so very special circumstances do not exist.
Framework references: 11, 110, 115, 143, 153, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy STRAT9, Policy DM19, Policy DM22
Judgments cited: Hibbitt v SSCLG [2016] EWHC 2853
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