PLANNERS at Warrington have put off a decision on 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 – a resubmission of one made in March which was refused by borough planning chiefs – came before the borough’s development management committee a second time with a recommendation for refusal.
The committee was told the applicant, who lives adjacent to the site, bought the land from the 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.
The committee decided it wanted more information before reaching a decision and deferred the item.
Planners defer decision on green belt “garden”
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