®Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent to 801 Bath Road, Burnham, SL6 0PR
Planning appeal 3298130 at Land Adjacent to 801 Bath Road, Burnham, SL6 0PR (Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *) was dismissed on 28 October 2022 by Inspector Blackwell J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the proposal would constitute inappropriate development within the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework 2021 and any relevant development plan policies.
construction of terrace of 4 no. 3-bed affordable dwellinghouses
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Blackwell J
- Postcode
- SL6 0PR
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the proposal would constitute inappropriate development within the Green Belt having regard to the National Planning Policy Framework 2021 and any relevant development plan policies
- the effect of the proposal on the living conditions of the occupiers of 801 Bath Road
- the effect of the proposal on the integrity of the Burnham Beeches Special Area of Conservation
What decided it
The unilateral undertaking's fallback provision allowing market housing delivery instead of affordable housing meant the development failed to meet the identified affordable housing need criterion of paragraph 149(g), rendering it inappropriate development in the Green Belt with no very special circumstances to justify it.
The substantial harm from inappropriateness in the Green Belt outweighed the modest benefit of four new dwellings to the Council's housing stock, and very special circumstances were not demonstrated.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy GB1 of the South Bucks District Local Plan (1999)Policies EP3 and H9 of the Local PlanPolicy CP8 of the Council's Core Strategy
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11Paragraph 149
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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