County council officers claim the proposal would divert too much waste material from nearby recycling sites, disrupting the county’s waste management plan.
The planning application also provides “insufficient information” about the impact of construction traffic on local roads and “has not provided sufficient detail with regard to the flood risk and drainage strategy of the site”, according to the report.
Officers also said there was also not enough detail provided about the proposal’s impact on the site’s biodiversity and the designs “may appear incongruous within the existing landscape”.
Officers “acknowledged that the development would result in some benefits” but said the applicant had not done enough to show these would justify “inappropriate development” on the green belt.
It was claimed in the planning application that “very special circumstances” justified the development and the proposal’s environmental impact would be “acceptable”.
The site is currently listed for sale with a guide price of nearly £2.3m.