®Planning appeal decision
Land off Papist Way, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PA
- Authority
- South Oxfordshire District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Clark P
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal represents sustainable development in terms of its effects on economic matters (best and most versatile agricultural land, mineral reserves, provision of employment, transport infrastructure, and the strategy for the development of land)
- Whether the proposal represents sustainable development in terms of its effects on social matters (a five-year supply of housing land, affordable housing, specialist housing for older people, and social infrastructure in terms of secondary schooling)
- Whether the proposal represents sustainable development in terms of its effects on environmental matters (landscape character, heritage assets and biodiversity)
What decided it
The Secretary of State found that because all the circumstances in paragraph 14 of the Framework applied, the adverse impacts of allowing development conflicting with the neighbourhood plan's spatial strategy significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits of the scheme.
significant benefits including market, affordable, self-build and older persons' housing, and economic benefits, were outweighed by the harm from loss of best and most versatile agricultural land and conflict with the development plan's spatial strategy/neighbourhood plan, such that adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighed the benefits when assessed against the Framework as a whole
Framework references: 11, 14, 48, 56, 57, 73, 76, 124, 125, 153, 176, 199, 202
Plan policies cited: SOLP Policy STRAT1, SOLP Policy EMP2, SOLP Policy DES7(vii), SOLP Policy ENV1, SOLP Policy ENV7, SOLP Policy H9, SOLP Policy H12, SOLP Policy H13, SOLP Policy INF1, SOLP Policy TRANS2, SOLP Policy TRANS4, SOLP Policy TRANS5, SOLP Policy EP5, Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan Part 1 Policy M8, CNP Policy STRAT1 (CNP1)
Judgments cited: R v Rochdale MBC ex parte Tew and Others [1999] 3 PLR 74; R v Rochdale MBC ex parte Milne [2000] EHWC 650 (Admin)
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.