openness

Appeal: Timber grieving canopy not inappropriate in green belt

17.07.2019

Matt Moody

Community Infrastructure | crematorium | Green Belt | openness | South East

Plans for a 'timber octagonal canopy' to create a 'covered grieving area' at an existing crematorium in Hertfordshire can go ahead, after an inspector ruled that green belt openness need not be 'entirely...
Appeal: Green belt grain store scheme ‘considered as a whole’

15.05.2019

Matt Moody

agricultural | East Midlands | Green Belt | openness | Rural

An inspector has approved plans for a grain store and associated hardstanding on green belt land south of Cambridge, ruling that the scheme was not harmful to green belt openness if considered as a whole....
Appeal: Council must pay costs for ‘openness’ misinterpretation

01.03.2019

Matt Moody

Green Belt | high court | North West | openness | Rural

Warrington Borough Council must pay costs for failing to distinguish between ‘openness’ as it relates to green belt policy and openness as a descriptive term, in refusing plans for two agricultural buildings...
Appeal: Smaller building would have greater ‘spatial presence’

06.12.2018

Matt Moody

Green Belt | Leisure & Tourism | NPPF | openness | previously developed land | South West

A plan to replace a garden workshop building in Dorset with a holiday home has been blocked for harm to green belt openness, after an inspector found that the new building would have a greater ‘spatial...
Appeal: Replacement green belt farmhouse blocked despite improved openness

01.11.2018

Matt Moody

conversion | Green Belt | openness | Regeneration | West Midlands

Plans for the replacement of a Warwickshire farmhouse would be an inappropriate green belt development, an inspector has ruled, despite the appellant's plans to improve the site's openness by...