®Planning appeal decision
Land At Foxbridge Village North, Wanborough Road, Swindon, SN6 7
the erection of up to 220 dwellings, commercial facilities up to 300sqm (Use Classes A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, B1 and D1) and a primary school (on a site of 2.2ha) with associated parking, landscaping, drainage and heritage trail; access to Southern Connector Road not reserved
- Authority
- Swindon Borough Council
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- residential · Unknown
- Inspector
- Sims B
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the appeal proposal makes sufficient and appropriate provision for education facilities, in terms of whether the primary school would be necessary in practice
- whether, with respect to viability, the proposal makes sufficient and appropriate provision for affordable housing
- whether, with respect to viability, the proposal makes sufficient and appropriate provision for the infrastructure required to support the development and mitigate its impacts
- the effect the proposed development would have on the historic environment, with respect to the settings of designated and non-designated heritage assets
What decided it
Applying the tilted balance under NPPF paragraph 11(d) following the Council's 4.6-year housing land supply, the identified benefits of the scheme outweighed the low to moderate less-than-substantial heritage harm and other policy conflicts.
the benefits of housing delivery, affordable housing, infrastructure contributions, biodiversity net gain and heritage enhancement outweighed the policy conflicts with Policies NC3, CM1 and EN10 and the viability shortfall in infrastructure funding, both under section 38(6) and under the NPPF paragraph 11(d) tilted balance
Framework references: 7, 8, 11, 12, 58, 68, 163, 200, 202, 203
Plan policies cited: Policy NC3, Policy CM1, Policy SD1, Policy SD2, Policy SD3, Policy HA2, Policy IN1, Policy EN10, Policy TR1, Policy TR2, Policy EN9, Policy DE1, Policy DE2, Policy EN1, Policy EN6, Policy WSC6
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.