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Dismissed4 August 20223269897

Land to the Rear of Sovereign Drive and Precosa Road, Botley, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO30 2SR

Planning appeal 3269897 at Land to the Rear of Sovereign Drive and Precosa Road, Botley, Eastleigh, Hampshire, SO30 2SR (Eastleigh Borough Council) was dismissed on 4 August 2022 by Inspector Bale M, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect on the Hedge End, Botley and Boorley Green Settlement Gap (the Settlement Gap).

residential development comprising 106 no. dwellings, new access from Sovereign Drive, associated landscaping and drainage works following demolition of No. 47 Sovereign Drive and Hats Copse House (net 104 no. dwellings)

Authority
Eastleigh Borough Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Bale M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect on the Hedge End, Botley and Boorley Green Settlement Gap (the Settlement Gap)
  • Whether the proposal would result in a well-designed place
  • The effect on the living conditions of the occupiers of 1 Precosa Road and 45 Sovereign Drive with regard to disturbance from traffic using the proposed access

What decided it

The significant and harmful conflict with Policy S6 arising from harm to the Settlement Gap, combined with the failure to achieve a well-designed place, outweighed the housing-related benefits.

Even assuming a shortfall in housing land supply and attributing substantial weight to housing, economic and affordable housing benefits, the very substantial weight given to the conflict with Policy S6 and the harm to the Settlement Gap, together with design harm, meant the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy S5Policy S6Policy DM1Policy DM13
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11

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