®Planning appeal decision
Land North Of Railway Line And East Of Station Road, Station Road, Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9NE
Planning appeal 3291136 at Land North Of Railway Line And East Of Station Road, Station Road, Greenhithe, Kent, DA9 9NE (Dartford Borough Council) was allowed on 24 April 2023 by Inspector Barrett R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the appeal proposal would achieve high quality design and respond to local character and the street scene of Greenhithe.
erection of 3 buildings up to four storeys in height to provide 47 flats with off-street car parking, communal amenity space, hard and soft landscaping, recycling and refuse storage facilities and new vehicular accesses serving the site from Station Road and Station Approach
- Authority
- Dartford Borough Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Barrett R
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal proposal would achieve high quality design and respond to local character and the street scene of Greenhithe
- Whether the appeal proposal would provide acceptable living conditions for future occupiers, with particular regard to outlook from habitable rooms with projecting bay windows on the rear of blocks A and B
What decided it
The proposal's location close to modern facilities, services and public transport, combined with its high quality design that responds appropriately to local character and provides acceptable living conditions for future occupiers, means it accords with the Development Plan when read as a whole.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- DP2DP5DP8CS17CS18CS19CS10DP6
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 48Paragraph 130
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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