Site Adjacent Church House, Church Street, West Stour, Dorset, SP8 5RL

erect dwelling with 2no. parking spaces

Authority: Dorset
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Tucker A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site is suitably located for the development proposed, having regard to local and national policy

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply, combined with the modest scale of the proposal and its accordance with the environmental, social and economic objectives of sustainable development, meant the presumption in favour of sustainable development applied and outweighed the conflict with the development plan.

The conflict with the Council's spatial strategy in the local plan was outweighed by the benefits of housing delivery in the context of a significant shortfall in housing supply and the proposal's accordance with the three dimensions of sustainable development, applying the tilted balance under paragraph 11(d) of the Framework.

Framework references: 8, 11, 79, 104, 105

Plan policies cited: Policy 2, Policy 6, Policy 20

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