®Planning appeal decision
Land East of Highwood Quarry, Park Road, Little Easton, CM6 2JH
for between 1,000 and 1,200 dwellings (Use Class C3); up to 21,500 sq m gross of additional development for Use Classes: C2 (residential institutions care/nursing home); E(a-f & g(i)) (retail, indoor recreation, health services and offices); F1(a) (Education); F2(a-c) (local community uses); car parking; energy centre; and for the laying out of the buildings, routes, open spaces and public realm and landscaping within the development; and all associated works and operations including but not limited to: demolition; earthworks; and engineering operations. All development, works and operations to be in accordance with the Development Parameters Schedule and Plans
- Authority
- Uttlesford District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Catchpole R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Heritage
- Landscape
- Highways and sustainable transport
- Other matters
- Housing land supply
What decided it
The absence of a five-year housing land supply triggered the paragraph 11(d) tilted balance, and the significant and great weight given to market and affordable housing delivery outweighed the identified moderate and limited harms.
The benefits of housing delivery (significant weight), affordable housing (great weight), and other moderate-weight benefits outweighed the moderate landscape, heritage and transport harms, such that adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole.
Framework references: 11, 48, 56, 57, 60, 105, 110, 111, 112, 130, 152, 174, 195, 196, 200, 202, 203
Plan policies cited: ENV1, ENV2, S7, GEN1, GEN1(c), GEN1(e), GEN6, GEN7, ENV7, ENV10, H9, LSC1, NE1, NE2, DM1, DM10, DM11, DM14, DM15, DM17
Judgments cited: City & Country Bramshill Limited v SSCLG [2021] EWCA Civ 320; Bernard Wheatcroft Ltd. v SoS for the Environment and Another [1982] 43 P. & C.R. 233
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.