Glenbrittle Kennels, Chester High Road, Burton, NESTON, CH64 8TE

demolition of existing surplus buildings and erection of 6 detached Class C3 residential properties and the change of use of an existing Class A1 retailing building to a Class D1 children’s day nursery

Authority: Cheshire West and Chester
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Wilson L

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

whether the site represents an appropriate location for the proposed development, having regard to access to local services, facilities and public transport as well as relevant local and national planning policy

What decided it

The site's unsustainable location, with poor access to local services and facilities along safe routes and limited public transport, conflicts with the development plan and would result in reliance on private vehicles, which the significant benefits of the scheme do not outweigh.

the significant benefits of the scheme (housing, affordable housing, nursery, jobs, highway improvements, removal of bad neighbour) did not outweigh the harm arising from conflict with the development plan as a whole and the unsustainable location of the development

Framework references: 149, 79, 105

Plan policies cited: STRAT 1, STRAT 2, STRAT 9, DM 1, DM 19

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