Appeal: Island green belt home's design is 'very special circumstances'

Plans for a replacement home in Somerset deemed 'inappropriate development' under NPPF rules can go ahead, an inspector has ruled, concluding that the 'holistic' proposals amounted to 'very special circumstances'.
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