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Dismissed26 June 20253354513

Flourishing Fields Farm, Stonehouse Lane, Hopwood, Worcestershire, B48 7BB

Planning appeal 3354513 at Flourishing Fields Farm, Stonehouse Lane, Hopwood, Worcestershire, B48 7BB (Bromsgrove District Council) was dismissed on 26 June 2025 by Inspector Sibley G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposed development would be granted planning permission by Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the GPDO with particular regard to whether the proposal would involve the carrying out on agricultural land comprised in an agricultural unit.

General purpose agricultural storage building

Authority
Bromsgrove District Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
agricultural · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector
Sibley G
Postcode
B48 7BB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the proposed development would be granted planning permission by Article 3, Schedule 2, Part 6, Class A of the GPDO with particular regard to whether the proposal would involve the carrying out on agricultural land comprised in an agricultural unit

What decided it

The lack of financial information and substantive evidence demonstrating that the agricultural activities on site were conducted for the purposes of a trade or business rather than for pleasure or ancillary to the educational use.

What the Inspector cited

Judgments
New World Payphones Ltd v Westminster City Council & Anor [2019] EWCA Civ 2250; Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment [1972] 3 All E.R 240

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