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

Planning appeal 3263033 at Land off Oak Tree Way, Cannington , Somerset, TA5 2RL (Sedgemoor District Council *) was dismissed on 6 December 2021 by Inspector Nicholls H, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the development would be provided with safe and convenient means of access for all road users.

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
Postcode: TR5 2RL

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

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy D13Policy D14Policy T2a
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 110Paragraph 111Paragraph 56
Judgments: Wheatcroft Ltd V SSE [1982]

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