Land adjacent to Fulwood, School Road, Bagnall

Appeal 6008539 · Staffordshire Moorlands District Council · Planning Inspector, on an appeal planning officer's recommendation · decided 18 August 2026 · dismissed

A bungalow with garage at the edge of Bagnall village, in the setting of the Bagnall Conservation Area, in the Green Belt.

Case page · Decision letter

Cited in: 2. Heritage harm at Forest Farm

Why this is cited. This appeal shows that a favourable Green Belt finding does not settle the case: the grey belt finding “does not in itself justify the grant”, and the heritage harm still had to be weighed against the public benefits on its own terms.

Key points

Heritage: "the proposal would not provide sufficient public benefits that would outweigh the harm" (¶13).
Green Belt: the site was grey belt, so not inappropriate, but "that finding does not in itself justify the grant of planning permission, nor does it override the identified harm" (¶15).

Quotations are from the officer report, decision notice or appeal decision letter, with page (p.) or paragraph (¶) numbers. Read the decision itself for the full reasoning.

Summarised for the note on Stratford decisions under the August 2026 NPPF. Not legal advice. Back to the note.