They heard from the applicant’s agent that the family had, after buying the field in 2010, transformed the land on which it would be placed more than a decade from an overgrown site blighted by fly-tipping and colonised by rats into an attractive space
Tractors and 4×4 vehicles which would be used to service the site would be able to cope with the gradient – access was a concern of planning officers – said Mr Steel. He added the size of the building had been remodelled and was 40 per cent smaller than in a previous, refused, application.
But planning officers said their concern was the proposal would be inappropriate development in the green belt as it would be for domestic rather than agricultural – which otherwise might have demonstrated special circumstances – use. Coun Colin Hutchinson said while it was now an attractive, lovely site which councillors had visited, he thought officers had got the balance right.
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