®Planning appeal decision
Blean Common, Blean, Kent, CT2 9JH
the erection of up to 85 residential dwellings (including 30% affordable housing), structural planting and landscaping, informal public open space, surface water attenuation, vehicular access point from Blean Common and associated ancillary works
- Authority
- Canterbury City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Jones G
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposed development would accord or conflict with the existing and emerging development plan policies for the area
- The planning balance, including having regard to matters relating to housing delivery
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable housing sites engaged the tilted balance, which the Council accepted meant the adverse impacts of the scheme would not significantly and demonstrably outweigh its benefits.
The combined adverse impacts of the development, including conflict with the development plan, would not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole, so the tilted balance favoured granting permission.
Framework references: 11, 74
Plan policies cited: Policy SP4, Policy HD4, Policy SS3, Policy R2, Policy R28, Policy DBE1
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.