PLANNERS at Warrington are being asked to approve a retrospective application to change a piece of open land in the Green Belt into a domestic garden.
Applicant John Hawthorne also wants permission to build a workshop and carport on the site in Lady Lane, Croft.
The application is a resubmission of one made in March, which was refused by borough planning chiefs.
A report to the borough council’s development management committee says the applicant, who lives adjacent to the site, bought the land from developer when a housing development was taking place. He wants to use the proposed building to store a caravan and van and the workshop for repairs.
The site is in the Green Belt – but planning officers say the proposal is modest in comparison to the adjoining development of 26 houses.
However, by definition it is inappropriate development in the Green Belt and results in the encroachment of a residential use into land contiguous with adjacent woodland.
Green Belt garden plan
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