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TM/14/02816/FL - Alans Hectare, Cemetery Lane, Hadlow

Meeting: 29/10/2015 - Area 1 Planning Committee (Item 46)

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Change of use of land to a private gypsy and traveller caravan site consisting of 2no. pitches at Alans Hectare Cemetery Lane Hadlow

 

It was reported that this application was subject to an appeal to the Planning Inspectorate against non-determination within the target date of November 2014.  Accordingly, Members considered what the Borough Council’s decision would have been if they were still in a position to determine the application.    The resolution would be used as the basis for the Borough Council’s case in connection with the appeal.  The nature of the development proposals now subject of the appeal was detailed in the report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health.

 

RESOLVED: That the Planning Inspectorate and the applicant be advised that, had the Local Planning Authority, been in a position to determine the application, it would have REFUSED planning permission for the following reasons:

 

(1)     The site lies within the Metropolitan Green Belt where there is a strong presumption against permitting inappropriate development, as defined in paragraphs 89-91 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and paragraph 16 of the Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2015 and Policies CP3 and CP20 of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Core Strategy 2007. The development constitutes inappropriate development which is harmful to the Green Belt by definition. Furthermore, the development by virtue of its specific nature, siting and scale causes material harm to the open function and character of the Metropolitan Green Belt and gives rise to an encroachment of built development into the countryside, contrary to the requirements of paragraph 79 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012. There are no very special circumstances which outweigh the degree of harm caused to the Green Belt by inappropriateness and harm to openness. The development is therefore contrary to the requirements set out in Section 9 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012, the Planning Policy for Travellers Sites 2012 and policies CP3 and CP20 of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Core Strategy 2007.

 

(2)     The development, by virtue of its nature, siting and scale, detracts from the character of the rural locality and causes harm to the rural amenity of the countryside and is therefore contrary to Policies CP14 and CP20 of the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Core Strategy 2007.

 

[Speaker:  Mrs Massey – Hadlow Parish Council and Mr Thomas – member of the public]