®Planning appeal decision
Waste Transfer Station, Kimbers Lane, Maidenhead, SL6 2QP
Expansion of existing permitted capacity at Kimbers Lane from 5,000 tonnes per annum of inert waste to 25,000 tonnes per annum of inert, household, commercial and industrial waste, and the erection of a waste transfer building, office building, weighbridge and surrounding bund
- Authority
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- minerals-waste · Mineral working
- Inspector
- Sims B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The potential effect on traffic flows, highway safety and residential amenity due to additional heavy goods vehicle (HGV) traffic over and above that already generated by the existing protected waste development at the site, and a range of other environmental matters and planning benefits
What decided it
The material benefit of providing an additional 20,000 tonnes per annum of waste treatment capacity in the face of an acknowledged shortfall in the Borough outweighed the moderate visual harm and lack of biodiversity net gain.
The benefit of an additional 20,000 tonnes of waste processing capacity in the face of an acknowledged shortfall carried substantial weight and outweighed the moderate visual harm and lack of biodiversity net gain; the tilted balance of the NPPF was applied and the benefit would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the harms in the absence of any particular restrictive policies of the NPPF applying
Framework references: 111
Plan policies cited: Policy IF2, Policy DM9, Policy DM12, Policy EP1, Policy NR3, Policy QP3
Judgments cited: Satnam Millenium Ltd v SSHCLG [2019] EWHC 2631 (Admin)
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