Land off Kingshurst Drive and the rear of 66 Bretforton Road, Badsey, Worcestershire, WR11 7XQ

for the development of 21 dwellings together with associated accesses, parking and landscaping

Authority: Wychavon District Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Major dwellings
Inspector: Aqbal M

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the submitted S106 Agreement makes appropriate provision for contributions towards local education facilities, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, local transport infrastructure, built sports facilities, affordable housing, and the delivery and management of open space

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply, combined with the revised scheme's compliance with development plan policies and the S106 Agreement's satisfaction of all infrastructure and affordable housing requirements, justified allowing the appeal.

The benefits of housing delivery in the context of a shortfall in five-year housing land supply outweighed any other considerations, particularly given the revised scheme's accordance with the development plan and comprehensive S106 obligations.

Plan policies cited: SWDP 15, SWDP 39, SWDP 7, SWDP 1, SWDP 26

Read the decision letter on the Inspectorate’s site

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.

What an account adds

Draw a red line around your site and the appraisal follows.

Heritage. Listed buildings by grade and distance, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, heritage at risk.
Landscape and environment. Green belt, national parks and national landscapes, SSSIs, ancient woodland, SPA, SAC and Ramsar sites, nutrient catchments.
Flooding. Flood zones 2 and 3, surface water, and both again with climate change.
Transport. The 800 metre station catchment and service frequency, bus stops with their weekday frequency, the cycle network, and the Framework’s transport tests measured for the site.

Then the development plan position, the housing land supply as an Inspector last accepted it, and every appeal decided around the site with its letter.

Every English appeal since 2016, with the letter behind it wherever the Inspectorate published one. Searched by meaning as well as by words, with the key case law counted live across the letters.

Casework that chases the deadlines. Applications, appeals and conditions with their statutory dates.

The judgement stays yours. The tool gathers the material and dates it.