4 Honeybrook Cottages, Bridgnorth Road, Kidderminster, DY11 5RR

Planning appeal 3359910 at 4 Honeybrook Cottages, Bridgnorth Road, Kidderminster, DY11 5RR (Wyre Forest District Council) was dismissed on 4 July 2025 by Inspector Law T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the development would amount to inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework, relevant development plan policies, the effect on openness and the purposes of the Green Belt.

the change of use of land to form extended domestic curtilage and erection of garage extension

Authority: Wyre Forest District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Change of use
Inspector: Law T
Postcode: DY11 5RR

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the development would amount to inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework, relevant development plan policies, the effect on openness and the purposes of the Green Belt
if the development is inappropriate, 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 development

What decided it

The proposed development fails to meet Framework paragraph 155(b) as there is no demonstrable unmet need for the type of development proposed, and it would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt with no very special circumstances to justify it.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: DM.22
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 143Paragraph 154Paragraph 155

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

28 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Wyre Forest

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Dismissed9 September 20266010714
66 Belbroughton Road, Blakedown, Kidderminster, DY10 3JH
Dismissed15 June 20263376007
Foxwood Manor, 204-206 Wilden Lane, Stourport on Seven, DY13 9JR
Dismissed14 May 20266004729
Grove Farmhouse, Drayton Road, Belbroughton, DY9 0BW
Allowed10 February 20266001150
Lower Kingsford Farm, Castle Hill Lane, Wolverley, Worcestershire, DY11 5SW
Split Decision6 February 20263342673
Land at Oak Meadow Farm, Honeybrook Lane, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 5QS

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.