Garons Park Golf Complex , Garons Park, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS2 4FA

extension of existing single storey golf driving range building to incorporate enlarged all weather and nighttime driving bay with new "Toptracer" golf driving simulator machine together with new cafeteria incorporating new golfers / visitors toilets together with kitchen, bar, servery and associated staff facilities and toilet

Authority: Southend-on-Sea City Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Minor retail and services
Inspector: Gardner L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and relevant development plan policies, with particular regard to the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
the effect of the proposal on the provision of land designated for the purposes of sport and recreation

What decided it

The proposal would preserve the openness of the Green Belt in visual terms and constitute appropriate facilities for sport and recreation under NPPF paragraph 154(b), therefore not being inappropriate development.

Framework references: 154, 155, 57

Plan policies cited: KP1, CP4, CP7, DM1, DM3

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