North Colchester Urban extension, Mile End Road, Colchester, CO4 6AZ

mixed use development comprising residential dwellings, a neighbourhood centre including commercial, residential and community uses, education uses, strategic landscaping, green infrastructure and areas for outdoor sport facilities, access (in detail where specified) related infrastructure and other works and enabling works without complying with conditions attached to planning permission Ref 121272, dated 2 July 2014

Authority: Colchester Borough Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Osgathorp C

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposed development would promote the use of sustainable modes of transport and minimise trips by the private car.

What decided it

Repositioning the bus gate to give 160 dwellings permanent vehicular access from Bartholomew Court would undermine the development plan's objectives to promote sustainable transport and minimise private car trips.

The limited benefits of a second point of sale and faster housing delivery did not outweigh the harm to sustainable transport objectives, and the proposal conflicted with the development plan as a whole with no other considerations, including the Framework, outweighing this finding.

Plan policies cited: Policy SP6, Policy SP7, Policy PR2, Policy TA1, Policy TA2, Policy TA3, Policy DP17, Policy SA NGA 2, Policy SA NGA4

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