®Planning appeal decision
Unit H, Maybrook Industrial Estate, Maybrook Road, WALSALL, WS8 7DG
change of use from general industrial (Class B2) to a children’s play centre (Sui Generis)
- Authority
- Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Change of use
- Inspector
- Hughes L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would be sited in an appropriate location
- the effect of the proposed development on highway and pedestrian safety
What decided it
The proposal would result in the loss of an industrial use from a protected high quality employment area and would not be sited in an appropriate location, conflicting with the development plan, and this conflict was not outweighed by the modest economic and social benefits.
Framework references: 85
Plan policies cited: Policy IND2 (Walsall Site Allocation Document 2019), Policy EMP2 (Black Country Core Strategy 2011), Policy CEN7 (Black Country Core Strategy 2011), Saved Policy S7 (Walsall Unitary Development Plan 2005), Saved UDP Policy T13, Saved UDP Policies T7 and T13, BCCS Policy TRAN2
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