Land adjacent to 801 Bath Road, Burnham, SL6 0PR

construction of terrace of 4 no. 3-bed affordable dwellinghouses

Authority: Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
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.

Framework references: 11, 149

Plan policies cited: Policy GB1 of the South Bucks District Local Plan (1999), Policies EP3 and H9 of the Local Plan, Policy CP8 of the Council's Core Strategy

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