®Planning appeal decision
Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, Essex, CM6 1SJ
residential development comprising 14 no. self-build dwellings together with access from and improvements to Buttleys Lane
- Authority
- Uttlesford District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Warder S
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- the effect of the proposal on the settings of Highwood Farmhouse and the barn listed buildings
- whether the proposal makes satisfactory provision for affordable housing
- whether the proposal could be provided with safe and suitable access to the highway
- whether satisfactory control over the self-build dwellings would be secured
What decided it
The failure to provide affordable housing, combined with less than substantial harm to the setting of the listed building, significantly and demonstrably outweighed the moderate benefits of self-build housing provision under the tilted balance test.
The moderate benefits of providing 14 self-build plots and limited locational and economic benefits were outweighed by the less than substantial harm to the setting of Highwood Farmhouse listed building (to which great weight was given) and the failure to provide affordable housing despite viability (to which considerable weight was afforded), resulting in the adverse impacts significantly and demonstrably outweighing the benefits when assessed against Framework policies as a whole.
Framework references: 11, 57, 62, 63, 65, 110, 199, 202
Plan policies cited: Policy H9, Policy ENV2, Policy GEN1, Policy GEN6
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.