®Planning appeal decision
Mare Lane Farm, Howe Lane, Binfield, Bracknell, RG42 5QP
Planning appeal 3377131 at Mare Lane Farm, Howe Lane, Binfield, Bracknell, RG42 5QP (Bracknell Forest Borough Council) was dismissed on 23 June 2026 by Inspector King T, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the proposal represents inappropriate development in the Green Belt, affecting its openness or whether the land can be considered as grey belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework.
Erection of a commercial barn building, for a mix of agriculture storage & operations (sui generis), and office and retail space (use Class E), with associated parking, following demolition of previous barn building (retrospective)’. Formal
- Authority
- Bracknell Forest Borough Council
- Appeal type
- enforcement · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- employment-industrial · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- King T
- Postcode
- RG42 5QP
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal represents inappropriate development in the Green Belt, affecting its openness or whether the land can be considered as grey belt for the purposes of the National Planning Policy Framework
- Whether any adverse traffic impacts resulting from the development can be mitigated by way of the imposition of planning conditions and s106 obligations
- if it is inappropriate development, 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 comprehensive conditions and s106 obligations were found to provide adequate mitigation such that the economic and other benefits clearly outweighed the Green Belt and other harm, amounting to very special circumstances.
the harm by reason of inappropriateness and other harm to the Green Belt was outweighed by other considerations, including economic benefits and mitigation secured by conditions and the s106 agreement, amounting to the very special circumstances necessary to justify the development
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- LP34LP policies 25, 26, 60 and 62
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 153Paragraph 154Paragraph 155Paragraph 143Paragraph 116Paragraph 115Paragraph 85Paragraph 88Paragraph 89Paragraph 124Paragraph 125
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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