®Planning appeal decision
Ashbourne Lodge Care Home, 80 Derby Road, ASHBOURNE, DE6 1BH
erection of 9 bungalows
- Authority
- Derbyshire Dales District Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Clark J
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the number of dwellings proposed makes efficient use of the site having regard to the development plan, in particular Local Plan Policy HC2
What decided it
The proposal fails to make efficient use of an allocated housing site by proposing significantly fewer dwellings than the site allocation indicates, without robust evidence that a higher density cannot be achieved, thereby prejudicing housing delivery and conflicting with the development plan taken as a whole.
The limited benefits of elderly persons accommodation were significantly and demonstrably outweighed by the significant harm arising from conflict with Local Plan policies S1, HC1 and HC2 requiring efficient use of allocated housing land, particularly given the Council's lack of five-year housing land supply.
Framework references: 11
Plan policies cited: Policy HC2, Policy HC1, Policy S1
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