Grindley Business Village, Grindley, Staffordshire, ST18 0LR

expansion of Grindley Business Village to provide additional office accommodation

Authority: Stafford Borough Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: employment-industrial · Minor general industry/storage/warehousing
Inspector: Smith H

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposal would be in a suitable location, having regard to the sustainable settlement hierarchy of the local plan, and whether the proposal would conflict with the sequential approach advocated within the National Planning Policy Framework

What decided it

The proposal failed to comply with the sequential test required by paragraph 87 of the Framework and conflicted with the development plan's requirement that greenfield sites should only be released where insufficient previously developed land in sustainable locations is available.

Framework references: 87, 89

Plan policies cited: Policy SP7, Policy SP6, Policy E2, Policy C5, Policy SP2

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