®Planning appeal decision
Land Comprising Field At 434461 456048 , Cass Lane, Knaresborough, HG5 8JZ
Without planning permission, the erection of a residential dwellinghouse and associated operational development and change of use, including the erection of an unfinished outbuilding (brick pillars), creation of hardstanding, the installation of a package treatment plan[t], the erection of a boundary fence and gate along with associated residential paraphernalia
- Authority
- North Yorkshire Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Enforcement Notice
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Minor traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Harbottle M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the erection of the dwellinghouse and the associated operational development amount to inappropriate development within the South and West Yorkshire Green Belt ("the GB").
- Their effect on the character and appearance of the area.
- If the erection of the dwellinghouse and the associated operational development and change of use constitutes inappropriate development, whether the harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations, and so amounts to the very special circumstances required to justify it ("the GB balance").
What decided it
The absence of very special circumstances clearly outweighing the harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and to landscape character.
the harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness and to landscape character was not clearly outweighed by the small contribution to general housing need and the occupiers' human rights and children's best interests, so very special circumstances were not demonstrated
Framework references: 11, 110, 115, 143, 154, 155
Judgments cited: Sage v SSETR & Maidstone BC [2003] UKHL 22
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.