®Planning appeal decision
Brockswood, 47 Burnham Green Road, Burnham Green, Hertfordshire, AL6 0NL
alterations to existing front porch and installation of front gates with walls
- Authority
- East Hertfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- householder · Householder (HAS)
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Householder developments
- Inspector
- Fern L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether or not the proposed development would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt, having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies, and the effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- the effect of the proposed development on the protected trees
- whether or not harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other identified harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposed development
What decided it
The proposed gates and walls constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt causing substantial harm to openness and significant harm to protected trees, with insufficient other considerations to outweigh this harm and establish very special circumstances, whereas the porch alterations benefit from the NPPF paragraph 154(c) exception and cause no identified harm.
Framework references: 154
Plan policies cited: Policy GBR1, Policy DES3
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