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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/16/01036/FULL
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The site is located in the South Bedfordshire Green Belt, within the infill boundary for Aspley Heath. However, the proposal does not constitute infill development as it would comprise backland development on an existing residential garden that would be contrary to the prevailing pattern of development in the area. As such the proposal is considered to represent inappropriate development and would therefore be harmful to the Green Belt by definition. The proposed development would also have a detrimental impact on the openness of the Green Belt. No very special circumstances case has been submitted which would outweigh the identified harm to the Green Belt. The proposal is thus contrary to Section 9 of the National Planning Policy Framework and policy DM6 of the Central Bedfordshire Core Strategy and Development Management Policies (North).
2) The proposal, by reason of its excessive scale and siting, constitutes an undesirable, backland form of development that would push residential development closer to the boundary of the settlement with the open countryside and would be inappropriate to and at variance with the prevailing form of development in the vicinity; as such the proposal is contrary to the principles of good design as set out in Section 7 of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policies CS14 and DM3 of the Central Bedfordshire Core Strategy and Development Management Policies (North).
3) The proposed development would result in the unacceptable loss of trees within a Conservation Area to the detriment of the character and appearance of the area, especially views from the public footpath at the rear of the site. The proposed access track would also pose a high risk of future harm to trees within the Conservation Area that are shown to be retained, which would result in further harm to the character and appearance of the area. As such the proposal is contrary to Sections 7 and 11 of the National Planning Policy Framework and Policies CS13, CS16, DM3 and DM14 of the Central Bedfordshire Core Strategy and Development Management Policies (North).
4) To permit the proposed backland development on land within the Green Belt infill boundary against the background of existing planning policies would establish a precedent whereby it would be difficult for the Local Planning Authority to resist other similar proposals elsewhere within the Aspley Heath Conservation Area and Green Belt infill boundary.


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