Planning appeal decision
Windfalls Boutique Hotel, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS
Planning appeal 3263418 at Windfalls Boutique Hotel, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS (Mid Sussex District Council) was dismissed on 2 August 2021 by Inspector Roberts G, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposed development would be acceptable having regard to local and national planning policies on the location of housing.
demolition of existing timber building and the erection of a new 3 bedroom dwelling
- Authority
- Mid Sussex District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Roberts G
- Postcode
- RH10 4SS
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposed development would be acceptable having regard to local and national planning policies on the location of housing
- whether the proposed development would be sustainably located in relation to local services and facilities
What decided it
The significant harm to the development plan's strategy of restricting countryside development and distributing housing to strategic allocations and defined settlements outweighed the limited benefits of one new dwelling on previously developed land.
the significant harm to the development plan's spatial strategy and the unsustainable location outweighed the limited benefits of housing supply, reuse of previously developed land, and short-term construction benefits
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy DP6Policy DP12Policy DP15Policy DP14Policy DP19Policy DP21Policy DP26emerging policy CNP 2emerging policy CNP 15
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 15Paragraph 119Paragraph 120Paragraph 8Paragraph 11Paragraph 112Paragraph 174Paragraph 179Paragraph 180Paragraph 181Paragraph 182
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.
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