®Planning appeal decision
Land at Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR
Planning appeal 3295297 at Land at Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR (Vale of White Horse District Council) was dismissed on 6 March 2023 by Inspector Nicholls H, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the development accords with local or national policies that seek to guide the location, scale and nature of housing developments relative to existing settlements.
demolition of existing structures and construction of Entry Level Exception Site comprising 26 no. one, two and three bedroom affordable dwellings, vehicular and pedestrian accesses, internal access road, resident and visitor parking, pumping station, landscaping and public open space, boundary treatment and associated works
- Authority
- Vale of White Horse District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Nicholls H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the development accords with local or national policies that seek to guide the location, scale and nature of housing developments relative to existing settlements
- the effects of the proposal on protected trees
- whether the scheme would be adequately designed
What decided it
The cumulative harms arising from the site's location outside the settlement, harm to a protected tree, and inadequate design outweighed the affordable housing and other benefits of the scheme.
The benefits of 25 net zero carbon, entry-level affordable dwellings and associated economic benefits were incapable of outweighing the identified harms to trees, design quality and the conflict with policies guiding the location of housing.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy CP3Policy CP4Policy CP04aPolicy CP20aPolicy CP25Policy CP37Policy CP44Policy DP33SNP Policy H1SNP Policy H3Policy D1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 72
- Judgments
- Wheatcroft Ltd V SSE [1982]
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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