15 October 2009
The River Club v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another [2009] All ER (D) 66 (Oct)
The words “and any other harm” in para 3.2 of PPG2 were not to be restricted to harm affecting the green belt only.
Rather, they included both harm which was by definition “inappropriate harm” and some other harm.
That would enable a decision-maker to measure clearly the level of “harm” which might be caused to the green belt by a particular development against the benefits of the same, for the purposes of concluding whether “very special circumstances” existed to enable a grant of planning permission.
