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Conditions or Reasons for Planning Application - CB/23/00499/VOC
Conditions or Reasons:
1) The site is within the Green Belt and the development comprises inappropriate development within the Green Belt. Very special circumstances therefore need to be demonstrated to clearly outweigh the harm to the Green Belt and any other harm. The proposal would fail to preserve the openness of the Green Belt and would result in encroachment to the open countryside along with visual harm. The occupation of the development in breach of the planning conditions constitutes intentional unauthorised development which adds weight against the proposal. The Council can comfortably demonstrate a five-year supply of Gypsy and Traveller pitches. No personal information of the occupants of plot 6 have been submitted. Notwithstanding the factors including a lack of alternative available sites, these do not clearly outweigh the harm to the Green Belt, so as to constitute very special circumstances to justify the variation of condition 3 to remove the named permission for plot 6. The proposal is therefore contrary to Section 13 (Protecting Green Belt land) of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), July 2021, Planning Policy for Traveller Sites (PPTS), August 2015, and Policy SP4 (Development in the Green Belt), Policy H7 (Gypsy and Traveller Development), Policy HQ1 (High Quality Development) and Policy SP7 (Windfall Development) of the Central Bedfordshire Local Plan 2015 - 2035, July 2021.


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