®Planning appeal decision
Land At Bodieve, Bodieve, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 6EG
an outline application for residential development including access of up to 245 new homes (to include 30% affordable homes), new relief road from Ball Roundabout to B3314, new public open space (including play area and community orchard and cycle path/amenity walkway), extensive new tree planting and new habitat creation including 1.75ha. of new woodland planting and 0.25ha of new wildlife ponds)
- Authority
- Cornwall Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Robins M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the appeal site represents an appropriate location for residential development having regard to national and local policies
- the effect of the proposal on the landscape character and appearance of the area
What decided it
The tilted balance under paragraph 11(d)(ii) was engaged because the most important policies (Policies 3 and 7) were out-of-date, and the substantial housing and affordable housing benefits together with significant highway/link road benefits were not significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the moderate landscape harm identified.
The substantial weight attached to housing and affordable housing delivery, significant weight to the link road and highway improvements, and moderate weight to biodiversity, open space and economic benefits outweighed the moderate, partly temporary landscape character harm and the limited harm from loss of agricultural land, so the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits under the tilted balance.
Framework references: 11, 57
Plan policies cited: Policy 1, Policy 2, Policy 2a, Policy 3, Policy 7, Policy 23, Policy ENV15, CLP Policy 8
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.