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Planning permission granted14 August 20253361214

Land Known As Hillings Nursery, Bagshot Road, Chobham, Woking, GU24 8DB

Planning appeal 3361214 at Land Known As Hillings Nursery, Bagshot Road, Chobham, Woking, GU24 8DB (Surrey Heath Borough Council) was allowed on 14 August 2025 by Inspector Hocking P, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether or not the mixed use constitutes inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework.

The mixed use comprising horticultural nursery, storage, landscaping business, car parking and activities ancillary to these uses, and retention of hardstanding and a flat roof structure and retention of shipping containers

Authority
Surrey Heath Borough Council
Appeal type
enforcement · Enforcement Notice
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
employment-industrial · Change of use
Inspector
Hocking P
Postcode
GU24 8DB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • whether or not the mixed use constitutes inappropriate development within the Green Belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework
  • the effect of the mixed use on the character and appearance of the area
  • the effect of the mixed use on neighbouring living conditions, having particular regard to noise and disturbance
  • whether the mixed use is unacceptably harmful to highway safety
  • the effect on nature conservation
  • if the mixed use is inappropriate, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development

What decided it

The northern land was found to be previously developed land, so the expanded mixed use did not constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt and no other unacceptable harms were identified.

having found the mixed use was not inappropriate development in the Green Belt and gave rise to no other planning harms, the Inspector concluded no harm existed to weigh against very special circumstances and the appeal succeeded

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy DM9Policy DM11Policy CP14A
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 142Paragraph 143Paragraph 154
Judgments
Burdle & Williams v SSE & New Forest DC [1972] 1 WLR 1207

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.

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