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Dismissed12 January 20233296251

Land off Papist Way, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PA

Planning appeal 3296251 at Land off Papist Way, Cholsey, Oxfordshire, OX10 9PA (South Oxfordshire District Council) was dismissed on 12 January 2023 by Inspector Clark P, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: 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).

Mixed Use development comprising up to 350 C3 residential dwellings, C2 Care and Assisted Living, E(a) retail, E(g) employment space, F2 Community Building, E(e) Daycare Nursery, Open Space and Landscaping

Authority
South Oxfordshire District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Clark P
Postcode
OX10 9PA

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

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
SOLP Policy STRAT1SOLP Policy EMP2SOLP Policy DES7(vii)SOLP Policy ENV1SOLP Policy ENV7SOLP Policy H9SOLP Policy H12SOLP Policy H13SOLP Policy INF1SOLP Policy TRANS2SOLP Policy TRANS4SOLP Policy TRANS5SOLP Policy EP5Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan Part 1 Policy M8CNP Policy STRAT1 (CNP1)
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11Paragraph 14Paragraph 48Paragraph 56Paragraph 57Paragraph 73Paragraph 76Paragraph 124Paragraph 125Paragraph 153Paragraph 176Paragraph 199Paragraph 202
Judgments
R v Rochdale MBC ex parte Tew and Others [1999] 3 PLR 74; R v Rochdale MBC ex parte Milne [2000] EHWC 650 (Admin)

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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