®Planning appeal decision
Mornings Mill Farm Eastbourne Road, Willingdon, Eastbourne, BN20 9NY
Planning appeal 3297419 at Mornings Mill Farm Eastbourne Road, Willingdon, Eastbourne, BN20 9NY (Wealden District Council) was allowed on 28 September 2022 by Inspector Boniface M, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site is a suitable location for the proposed development, having regard to planning policy.
comprehensive development of a mixed-use urban extension comprising up to 700 dwellings including affordable housing, 8,600 square metres of employment floorspace, medical centre, school, community centre, retail, playing fields, children’s play space, allotments, amenity open space, internal access roads, cycle and footpath routes and associated landscaping and infrastructure
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Boniface M
- Postcode
- BN20 9NY
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the site is a suitable location for the proposed development, having regard to planning policy
- The effect on local highways, with particular regard to whether safe and suitable access arrangements would be achieved
- Flood risk and drainage
- The effect on European Protected Habitats
- The effect on the character and appearance of the area, including landscape and visual impacts
What decided it
The substantial benefits of the scheme, including much-needed market and affordable housing, were not significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the very limited harm identified, and the proposal accorded with the development plan taken as a whole.
The substantial benefits of the scheme (housing including affordable housing, economic benefits, open space/sports provision and biodiversity net gain) outweighed the very limited weight attached to conflict with out-of-date policies GD2 and DC17 and the limited localised landscape and visual harm
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy WCS4Policy GD2Policy DC17Policy EN1Policy EN2Policy TR3Policy TR13SPO7SPO15Policy WCS7Policy WCS14Policy EN8Policy EN15Policy CS1Policy WCS12Policy EN27SPO13Policy EN29Policy WCS13Policy EN12Policy EN14Policy LR3SPO9SPO2Policy TR16Policy CS2
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.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
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