®Planning appeal decision
Windfalls Boutique Hotel, Turners Hill Road, Worth, CRAWLEY, RH10 4SS
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
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
Framework references: 15, 119, 120, 8, 11, 112, 174, 179, 180, 181, 182
Plan policies cited: Policy DP6, Policy DP12, Policy DP15, Policy DP14, Policy DP19, Policy DP21, Policy DP26, emerging policy CNP 2, emerging policy CNP 15
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.