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Planning permission granted20 May 20253357967

Plots E and F, Land South of Plough Road, Smallfield Horley, Surrey, RH6 9SD

Planning appeal 3357967 at Plots E and F, Land South of Plough Road, Smallfield Horley, Surrey, RH6 9SD (Tandridge District Council) was allowed on 20 May 2025 by Inspector Hand S, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The main issues in all four appeals are whether the sites lie within an area of green belt that would qualify as 'grey belt'.

i) Without planning permission, the making of material change of use of the Land comprising of residential, and intensification of a caravan site for residential purposes by virtue of the stationing of caravans and static mobile homes; ii) Without planning permission operational development consisting of the regrading of land and the subsequent laying of hard surfacing materials which constitutes an engineering operation, the construction of an access with associated hardsurfacing, the installation of septic tank and drainage to the mobile homes brought onto the site and erection of boundary fencing and internal fencing to facilitate the unauthorised use of the land

Authority
Tandridge District Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Hearing
Development
caravan-gypsy · Change of use
Inspector
Hand S
Postcode
RH6 9SD

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The main issues in all four appeals are whether the sites lie within an area of green belt that would qualify as 'grey belt'.
  • The impact on the setting of the nearby listed building.
  • Whether the Council can provide a 5 year supply of gypsy sites.
  • Is the site sustainably located.
  • The impact of the development on the countryside and residential amenity?
  • The impact on ecology and whether the accesses can be made acceptable in highway safety terms.

What decided it

the personal circumstances of the appellant families, particularly the best interests of their children, outweighed the identified harm to the character and appearance of the countryside.

the significant harm to the character and appearance of the countryside was outweighed by the personal circumstances of the appellants and the best interests of their children, tipping the balance in favour of granting a personal planning permission

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CSP18Policy CSP9
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 143Paragraph 155
Judgments
Barnwell judgement

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