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Allowed20 June 20223284485

Station Road, Stalbridge, Dorset, DT10 2RJ

Planning appeal 3284485 at Station Road, Stalbridge, Dorset, DT10 2RJ (Dorset) was allowed on 20 June 2022 by Inspector Dawe A, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the proposed development in terms of the Council's spatial strategy, with particular regard to housing distribution and location and sustainable travel, having regard to local and national policy.

Outline planning application for the erection of up to 130 dwellings including affordable housing with public open space, structural planting and landscaping and sustainable drainage system (SuDS) with vehicular access point from Station Road. All matters reserved except for means of vehicular access

Authority
Dorset
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Dawe A
Postcode
DT10 2RJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the proposed development in terms of the Council's spatial strategy, with particular regard to housing distribution and location and sustainable travel, having regard to local and national policy
  • the effect of the proposed development on the landscape character and appearance of the area, with particular regard to that relating to the countryside comprising the site and surrounding area and the setting of the existing settlement of Stalbridge
  • the existing housing need and land supply position at local and strategic level

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply (4.35 years), which engaged the tilted balance under paragraph 11(d) of the Framework and meant the moderate identified harms did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits of the housing scheme.

The significant benefits of delivering up to 130 dwellings (including 40% affordable housing) and economic benefits outweighed the moderate harms to the Council's spatial strategy and to landscape character, such that under the tilted balance the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy 2Policy 4Policy 6Policy 7Policy 8Policy 14Policy 15Policy 20Policy 24
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 174Paragraph 11Paragraph 65
Judgments
Leech Homes case (Upper Tribunal, Lands Chamber)

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.

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