®Planning appeal decision
Killingdown Farm, Little Green Lane, Croxley Green, WD3 3JJ
demolition of existing buildings for residential development comprising two-storey houses and three-storey blocks of flats (160 dwellings in total), together with car parking, landscaping and other associated works’. This
- Authority
- Three Rivers District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Nunn M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area, including the landscape
- the effect on heritage assets
- the effect on the living conditions at No 5 Little Green Lane
- the overall planning balance
What decided it
The site's established housing allocation under Policy SA1/Site Ref H(10) combined with the substantial public benefits of delivering 160 dwellings (including 72 affordable homes) outweighed the less-than-substantial heritage harm and moderate landscape harm identified.
The less-than-substantial harm to heritage assets and moderate adverse landscape harm were outweighed by the substantial public benefits of housing delivery (including affordable housing), economic benefits and biodiversity improvements, such that the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits.
Framework references: 11, 15, 48, 56, 57, 60, 199, 202
Plan policies cited: Policy CP1, Policy CP1(f), Policy CP12, Policy DM1, Policy DM3, Policy PR01, Policy SA1
Judgments cited: Bramshill v SSHCLG [2021]; James Hall v City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council [2019] EWHC 2899 (Admin)
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.