®Planning appeal decision
Land South of The Wharf, Bugbrooke
Construction of 52.no new dwellings with associated open spaces, roads and drainage infrastructure
- Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Raygen Z
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- The effect of the proposal on the setting of the Grand Union Canal Conservation Area and the Bugbrooke Conservation Area
- Whether the appeal site is in an appropriate location for housing having regard to the requirements of local and national policy
What decided it
The proposal's conflict with the development plan's up-to-date spatial strategy (Policies S1 and R1), which the identified benefits were insufficient to outweigh.
The benefits of the scheme (significant weight for affordable housing, moderate weight for economic benefits, limited weight for biodiversity net gain, footpath and open space, and only modest weight for market housing) did not outweigh the less than substantial but great-weight heritage harm to the GUCCA setting and the conflict with the development plan as a whole, including its up-to-date spatial strategy.
Plan policies cited: Policy H2, Policy INF1, Policy INF2, Policy LH8, Policy GS1, Policy BN5, Policy HE6, Policy S1, Policy S3, Policy R1, Policy SS1, Policy LH1
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.