®Planning appeal decision
Mill Hill Farm Arden Road, Bredbury, STOCKPORT, SK6 2SB
a material change in the use of land from agricultural use to a mixed use as agriculture and storage use including the provision of shipping containers used for the purpose of self-storage
- Authority
- Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- employment-industrial · Change of use
- Inspector
- Jones D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any other relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the development on the openness of the Green Belt
- the effect of the development on the character and appearance of the area
- the effect of the development on highway safety
- whether any 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 substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and loss of openness, combined with harm to character and appearance and highway safety, is not clearly outweighed by other considerations, so very special circumstances do not exist.
The substantial weight given to harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, loss of openness, harm to character and appearance, and highway safety is not outweighed by the little weight carried by economic benefits and demand for the use, so the development cannot be justified.
Framework references: 142, 143, 153, 154, 155
Plan policies cited: Policy GBA1.2 of the Stockport Unitary Plan (adopted May 2006), Policy LCR1.1 of the Stockport Unitary Plan, Policy SIE-3 of the Stockport Core Strategy Development Plan Document (adopted March 2011), Policy T-3 of the Stockport Core Strategy Development Plan Document, Policy TD2.2 of the Stockport Unitary Plan
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.