Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed22 September 20213258901

Old Farm House, Newbury Road, Hermitage, Thatcham, RG18 9TB

Planning appeal 3258901 at Old Farm House, Newbury Road, Hermitage, Thatcham, RG18 9TB (West Berkshire District Council) was allowed on 22 September 2021 by Inspector Wood T, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effects of the proposed development on neighbouring residents.

Demolition of farmyard buildings, retention of The Old Farmhouse and the erection of up to 21 new dwellings, improved vehicular access off Newbury Road, car parking, public open space and landscaping; matters to be considered – access

Authority
West Berkshire District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Wood T
Postcode
RG18 9TB

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effects of the proposed development on neighbouring residents
  • Whether sufficient open space would be provided of a suitable quality
  • The effects on biodiversity

What decided it

The revised Parameter Plan would maintain sufficient safeguards to protect neighbouring amenity, provide suitable open space, and protect biodiversity, allowing the appeal to succeed.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy CS14

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

14 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in West Berkshire

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2021

  1. Allowed29 September 20266012621
    Land South of Sandhill, Hampstead Norreys Road, Hermitage, Thatcham, RG18 9XU
  2. Dismissed28 September 20266009359
    76 Mallard Way, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4US
  3. Dismissed4 September 20266009718
    Vyners Estate,, Mill Lane, Tidmarsh, Reading, RG8 8EB
  4. Allowed2 September 20266009448
    Compounds A, A1, And A4, Youngs Industrial Estate, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, Reading, RG7 4PW
  5. Dismissed21 July 20266007407
    Land West Of Kintbury Station Car Park, Station Road, Kintbury, RG17 9UT

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.