COUNCIL: 'The applicant has demonstrated very special circumstances sufficient to outweigh the harm'
At the time it was considered there was “an essential need” for a full-time worker to live on site “to meet the welfare requirements of the poultry”. Expansion of the farm to incorporate quail has also been established in a recent appeal.
That need remains and a new, permanent home is “justified” despite it being an “inappropriate development in the Green Belt”, according to council documents.
“The applicant has demonstrated very special circumstances sufficient to outweigh the harm,” a council officer wrote.
However, its location, beyond the edge of the settlement, is “harmful to the Green Belt”, they added.