®Planning appeal decision
Brookside, Hoffers Brook Farm, Harston, Cambridgeshire, CB22 7NJ
Planning appeal 3292500 at Brookside, Hoffers Brook Farm, Harston, Cambridgeshire, CB22 7NJ (South Cambridgeshire District Council) was allowed on 27 October 2022 by Inspector Fallon R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Highway and pedestrian safety, with particular regard to whether the scheme would create an unacceptable proliferation of accesses onto a classified highway and its impact on the adjacent dual use footway/cycleway.
described on the application form as “The creation of a new vehicular access to the A10 and associated landscape works
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- utilities-energy · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Fallon R
- Postcode
- CB22 7NJ
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Highway and pedestrian safety, with particular regard to whether the scheme would create an unacceptable proliferation of accesses onto a classified highway and its impact on the adjacent dual use footway/cycleway
What decided it
The visibility splays provided were sufficient and the proposal would not result in an unacceptable impact on highway and pedestrian safety or create a proliferation of access points on the A10.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy HQ/1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 150Paragraph 111
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.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.
With an account
What an account adds to this decision
More decisions in South Cambridgeshire
The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2022
- Notice varied and upheld9 January 20263362958Dernford Farm, Dernford Farm Road, Stapleford, Cambridge , CB22 5DY
- Dismissed31 October 20253364735Trinity Cottages Cambridge Road, Madingley, Cambridge, CB23 8AJ
- Dismissed12 August 20253365536Four Acre Piggery, Teversham Road, Teversham, Cambridge, CB1 9AN
- Dismissed29 July 2025336423956 West End, Whittlesford, Cambridge, CB22 4LX
- Dismissed18 July 20253362504Land Between 4 and 14 Middlemoor Road, Whittlesford , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire, CB22 4PB
The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.