®Planning appeal decision
Employment Land to the north of Maple Cross Lodge, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 9SE
a ‘comprehensive redevelopment to provide 2 no. warehouse Class E(giii)/B2/B8 units comprising a total of 16,115 sqm including 1,882 sqm ancillary E(gi) office space, access, landscaping and associated works.’
- Authority
- Three Rivers District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- employment-industrial · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Hendley D
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on biodiversity interests, in particular BNG and the Forester Moth
- The effect of the proposal on the living conditions of the occupiers of local residential properties by way of noise from traffic and the operation of the proposal
What decided it
The proposal's overall accordance with the development plan, with the biodiversity harm to the Forester Moth under Policy DM6 outweighed by the important economic need for the employment development, and noise impacts found not to be significant or unacceptable.
Under Policy DM6, the adverse impact on the Forester Moth was outweighed by the important economic need for the employment development; as the scheme otherwise accorded with the development plan as a whole, no further planning balance was required.
Framework references: 174, 180, 150, 185
Plan policies cited: Policy DM6, Policy SA2, Policy DM9, Policy CP1, Policy CP8, Policy CP10, Policy CP9, Policy LTP4
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.