®Planning appeal decision
Waltham Farm Shurlock Road, Waltham St. Lawrence, Reading, RG10 0HN
extension of existing fishery/fish breeding pond and relocation of existing stock fencing
- Authority
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- agricultural · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Page L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework and any relevant development plan policies, and any other harm relating to flood risk, biodiversity, and protected species
- whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, or any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The absence of baseline evidence demonstrating feasible use of excavated spoil and the lack of a site-specific flood risk assessment, combined with insufficient protected species surveys for water voles and failure to follow the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy, meant the identified harms to the Green Belt, flood risk, and biodiversity could not be outweighed by other considerations.
Framework references: 150, 147, 148, 159, 169, 174, 179, 180
Plan policies cited: Policy QP5, Policy NR1, Policy NR2
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.