Stocksbridge

If anyone is still out there...!!!...this application has been REFUSED by the planning department. I will paste the reasons below, from their reply to me today. Glad they have seen sense. How much longer will this go on for? Leave Hollin Busk alone.


1. The Local Planning Authority consider that the proposal will lead to an encroachment of urban development into the countryside and very special circumstances have not been proven to exist sufficient to outweigh the harm caused to the openness of the Green Belt and as such is contrary to Policy GE1 of the Unitary Development Plan and CS71 of the Sheffield Development Framework Core Strategy.

2. The proposed dwellinghouses constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt countryside and very special circumstances have not been proven to exist sufficient to outweigh the harm caused to the Green Belt and as such is contrary to Policy GE3 of the Unitary Development Plan and Planning Policy Guidance Note 2.

3. The proposed dwellinghouses do not constitute the infilling of a single plot within the confines of an existing village, group of buildings or substantially developed road frontage, nor do they replace existing dwellinghouses on the site. As such the proposal is contrary to Policy GE5 of the Unitary Development Plan.

Yes there is still life out here, and this is good news.

Glad to see common sense still exists.

It is good that the application was refused: it means that a green belt designation still has some meaning. If it hadn't been refused it would make it more likely that development would be allowed on other green belt land.

However, there is still the fact that the site is currently an eyesore.