Berwick Barns, Terling Hall Road, Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 2EY

Planning appeal 3266390 at Berwick Barns, Terling Hall Road, Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 2EY (Braintree District Council) was dismissed on 11 June 2021 by Inspector Thompson P, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site would be a suitable location for housing, with particular regard to its accessibility to local shops, services, and facilities.

New 4 Bedroom Detached House

Authority: Braintree District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Thompson P
Postcode: CM3 2EY

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the site would be a suitable location for housing, with particular regard to its accessibility to local shops, services, and facilities

What decided it

The poor accessibility of the site to local shops, services and facilities, requiring future occupants to be highly dependent on private motorised transport, constituted significant and overriding harm that outweighed the benefits of housing delivery and self-build provision even in the context of a shortfall in five-year housing land supply.

The adverse impacts of poor accessibility and unsustainable location, matters of significant and overriding weight, significantly and demonstrably outweighed the limited benefits of housing delivery and self-build provision when assessed against the policies in the Framework taken as a whole.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy RLP2Policy RLP16Policy CS5Policy CS7Policy LPP1Policy SP1Policy SP4Policy LPP17
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 78Paragraph 103Paragraph 11Paragraph 59Paragraph 61Paragraph 48

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