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

Planning appeal 3280933 at Land at Flat Farm, Broad Road, Hambrook, West Sussex, PO18 8SH (Chichester District Council) was allowed on 31 August 2023 by Inspector Webb B, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: 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.

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
Postcode: PO18 8SH

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.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy 9Policy 8Policy 40draft Policy T1
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 110Paragraph 11Paragraph 57

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

70 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision

An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter — Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.

Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app — Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.

Start your free trial

More decisions in Chichester

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

Dismissed5 August 20263371769
Melita Nursery, Chalk Lane, Sidlesham, PO20 7LW
Dismissed6 July 20266003763
Unit 1 The Old Army Camp, Cemetery Lane, Westbourne Emsworth, PO10 8SB
Dismissed6 July 20266003762
The Old Army Camp, Cemetery Lane, Westbourne Emsworth, PO10 8SB
Dismissed6 July 20266003760
Land South of Unit 1, Cemetery Lane, Woodmancote, Westbourne Emsworth, PO10 8SB
Dismissed6 July 20266003759
The Old Army Camp, Cemetery Lane, Woodmancote, Westbourne Emsworth, PO10 8SB

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.