®Planning appeal decision
Land off Pendragon Road, Exeter, EX4 9EE
a residential development of up to 100 dwellings and associated infrastructure
- Authority
- Exeter City Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Woodwards O
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the area, in particular with regard to landscape and the proposed access roads
- whether or not the appeal site is open space and the principle of redevelopment of the site
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five year housing land supply engaged the tilted balance, under which the substantial benefits of the housing (including above-policy affordable housing) were not significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the limited landscape harm identified.
The substantial and very substantial weight given to market and affordable housing, together with significant weight for biodiversity net gain and economic benefits and moderate/limited weight for open space and highway improvements, outweighed the moderate weight attributed to the limited harm to character and appearance, so the tilted balance favoured granting permission.
Framework references: 11, 130, 174, 99, 81, 56, 57
Plan policies cited: Policy CP16, Policy LS1, Policy DG1, Policy DG5, Policy L3, Policy H1, Policy CP7, Policy LS2
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.