®Planning appeal decision
Newlands Redbrook Street, Woodchurch, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3QR
a new four bedroom two storey dwellinghouse
- Authority
- Ashford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Glassar S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The principle of the proposed development with specific regard to access to services and facilities
What decided it
The appeal site's poor accessibility to local services and facilities, requiring reliance on private motor vehicles, constitutes substantial harm that significantly and demonstrably outweighs the modest housing supply benefits in the tilted balance.
The modest benefits of housing delivery and windfall development were substantially and demonstrably outweighed by the substantial harm arising from the site's poor accessibility to services and facilities and necessity for vehicle reliance, consistent with sustainable location policies in the development plan and Framework.
Framework references: 11, 69, 120
Plan policies cited: Policy SP1, Policy SP2, Policy HOU5, Policy HOU10
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.