®Planning appeal decision
Land Rear Of 13 To 73 Stafford Road, Duppas Hill Road, Croydon, CR0 4BG
the erection of buildings comprising 140 residential dwellings (Use Class C3) and 416m² (GIA) Community Hub (flexible Use Class F.1/F.2), ranging from two to five storeys together with associated accesses, car parking, cycle parking, hard and soft landscaping and associated infrastructure works
- Authority
- London Borough of Croydon
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Price J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The main issue in the appeal is whether the continued protection of the site for a secondary school use within both the current and emerging CLP remains appropriate to meet the education needs in this area.
What decided it
The finding that there was no reasonable prospect of the site coming forward for its allocated secondary school use, engaging NPPF paragraph 122(b) in support of the residential development to meet an unmet housing need.
The significant weight given to housing delivery (including affordable and family-sized homes) and economic benefits, together with the paragraph 122 support for meeting unmet housing need, outweighed the harm arising from conflict with the development plan's secondary school allocation.
Framework references: 12, 122, 20, 22, 95, 56, 57
Plan policies cited: Policy DM49, Policy DM49.2, London Plan Policy S3, Policy SP8, Policy DM29, Policy DM30, Policy G7 of the London Plan (2021), Policy DM28 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018), Policy D12 of the London Plan (2021)
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