Land off Oak Tree Way, Cannington , Somerset, TA5 2RL

outline planning application for the demolition of Denman's Farmhouse and associated agricultural buildings and the erection of up to 165 dwellings, with public open space, structural planting and landscaping, surface water flood mitigation and attenuation, land for a community building and associated parking and vehicular access point from Oak Tree Way. All matters reserved except for means of vehicular access

Authority: Sedgemoor District Council *
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Nicholls H

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the development would be provided with safe and convenient means of access for all road users

What decided it

The proposed vehicular access arrangements, including the reprioritised junctions and the inadequately evidenced emergency access via Denman's Lane, would not provide safe and convenient access for all road users.

the benefits of housing delivery, affordable housing, economic benefits and open space/ecological provision did not collectively outweigh the identified harm to highway safety, so the proposal was found contrary to the development plan as a whole

Framework references: 110, 111, 56

Plan policies cited: Policy D13, Policy D14, Policy T2a

Judgments cited: Wheatcroft Ltd V SSE [1982]

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