®Planning appeal decision
Land at Townsend Road, Shrivenham, SN6 8HR
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.
Framework references: 72
Plan policies cited: Policy CP3, Policy CP4, Policy CP04a, Policy CP20a, Policy CP25, Policy CP37, Policy CP44, Policy DP33, SNP Policy H1, SNP Policy H3, Policy D1
Judgments cited: Wheatcroft Ltd V SSE [1982]
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.