®Planning appeal decision
Seotamot Littlebourne Road, CANTERBURY, CT3 4AE
for an 80 bedroom care home (C2 use) and replacement dwelling house and detached garage
- Authority
- Canterbury City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- community-institutional · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Jackson R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- effect on habitats sites
- highway safety
- character and appearance of the area
What decided it
The proposal would adversely affect the integrity of the Stodmarsh SAC and Ramsar site through nutrient pollution from wastewater with no appropriate mitigation secured, which under the Habitats Regulations is a mandatory ground for refusal.
The benefits of housing delivery were outweighed by the adverse effect on a habitats site (a clear reason to refuse under paragraph 182 of the Framework) and the unmitigated highway safety issues.
Framework references: 11, 80, 110, 182
Plan policies cited: Policy LB5, Policy LB6, Policy T1, Policy T9, Policy SP1, Policy SP4, Policy DBE3, Policy QL10
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.