Land at Flat Farm, Broad Road, Hambrook, West Sussex, PO18 8SH

the erection of 30 dwellings comprising 21 market and 9 affordable homes, access and associated works including the provision of swales

Authority: Chichester District Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Hearing
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Webb B

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether contributions towards mitigating the effect of additional trips on the operation of the A27 should be calculated with reference to adopted or emerging policy

What decided it

The finding that the A27 mitigation contribution should be calculated with reference to adopted Policy 9 and the SPD (which passed the CIL tests), rather than the emerging and uncertain draft Policy T1, meaning the development was compliant with the development plan.

The development complies with the development plan taken as a whole and, given the Council's lack of a five-year housing land supply, paragraph 11 of the Framework provided an additional indication that permission should be granted.

Framework references: 110, 11, 57

Plan policies cited: Policy 9, Policy 8, Policy 40, draft Policy T1

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