®Planning appeal decision
Glaze Restaurant Land adj Manor Hotel, Edgwarebury Lane, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3RE
retrospective application to retain modified and refaced single story flat roofed timber facing building with proposed additional landscaping and continued use as a restaurant and use of existing hotel parking
- Authority
- Hertsmere Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Bennett T
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development is inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- if it is inappropriate, 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 required to justify the development
What decided it
The change in Framework wording from 'no greater impact' to 'no substantial harm' to openness, combined with the finding that the development causes only limited visual and moderate spatial harm, means the proposal qualifies as a permitted exception under paragraph 154g and is not inappropriate development.
Framework references: 154
Plan policies cited: Policy CS13, Policy SADM26
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