®Planning appeal decision
Turnden, Land Adjacent to Hartley Road, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3QX
Planning appeal 3273015 at Turnden, Land Adjacent to Hartley Road, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3QX (Tunbridge Wells Borough Council) was allowed on 4 April 2022 by Inspector Jones G, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The main issues are those set out by the Inspector at IR703.
the construction of 165 new dwellings with associated access, car parking, refuse/recycling storage, landscaping, earthworks and other associated works
- Authority
- Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
- Appeal type
- other · Called In Planning Application
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Jones G
- Postcode
- TN17 3QX
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issues are those set out by the Inspector at IR703
What decided it
The Secretary of State found that exceptional circumstances existed and that the development was in the public interest under NPPF paragraph 183, with the limited harm to the AONB outweighed by the substantial benefits of housing delivery and the significant weight attached to the emerging Local Plan allocation.
The substantial weight of benefits (housing need and delivery, BNG, recreation, highway safety improvements, heritage and landscape benefits) outweighed the great weight given to limited harm to the HWAONB, moderate weight harm from development outside the limits of built development, and very limited weight harms to air quality and the eLP plan-making process, such that material considerations indicated permission should be granted despite conflict with the development plan.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy LBD1Core Policy 1Core Policy 4Core Policy 5Core Policy 12Core Policy 14Policy EN1Policy EN5Policy EN25Policy AL/STR 1Policy AL/CR4Policy LN3.1Policy LN3.3Policy LN3.4Policy LN3.5Policy LN3.7Policy HD4.4Policy HD4.7bPolicy HD4.8Policy HD4.10Policy AM5.1Policy STR/CRS 1Policy AL/CRS3Policy EN 21Policy EN 22Policy EN 19Policy STR 8
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 48Paragraph 56Paragraph 60Paragraph 76Paragraph 77Paragraph 88Paragraph 96Paragraph 128Paragraph 182Paragraph 183Paragraph 185Paragraph 186Paragraph 191Paragraph 192Paragraph 226
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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