®Planning appeal decision
Land at Bodiam Business Centre, Junction Road, Bodiam, TN32 5UW
Planning appeal 3301063 at Land at Bodiam Business Centre, Junction Road, Bodiam, TN32 5UW (Rother District Council) was dismissed on 15 August 2023 by Inspector Buchanan R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site would be an appropriate location for housing, having regard to the Council's spatial strategy for development.
erection of 4 x 3 bedroom terraced dwellings together with associated car parking and landscaping
- Authority
- Rother District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Other minor developments
- Inspector
- Buchanan R
- Postcode
- TN32 5UW
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site would be an appropriate location for housing, having regard to the Council's spatial strategy for development
- whether the proposal would result in the unjustified loss of a site for employment or community use
- whether it would provide satisfactory living conditions for future occupants having regard to outdoor private amenity space and to noise and disturbance
What decided it
The adverse impacts of granting planning permission—including conflict with the spatial strategy, loss of employment land, inadequate private amenity space, and potential noise disturbance—significantly and demonstrably outweighed the modest benefits of four dwellings, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
The modest social, economic and environmental benefits of four dwellings (moderate weight) were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the fundamental conflict with the spatial strategy, loss of employment land, inadequate private amenity space, and potential noise harm (each with significant weight), such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy OSS2Policy OSS3Policy OSS4(i)Policy RA3(iii)Policy TR3Policy EC3(i)Policy DIM2Policy DEC3(i)Policy DCO1Policy DHG7(i)Policy DEN7
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11
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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