®Planning appeal decision
H M Prison, Grendon, Grendon Underwood, AYLESBURY, HP18 0TL
[the construction of a new Category C prison (up to 67,000 sqm GEA) within a secure perimeter fence together with access, parking, landscaping and associated engineering works on land adjacent to HMP Grendon and HMP Springhill, Grendon Underwood, Edgcott. Summary of Recommendation: The appeal be allowed, and planning permission granted subject to conditions 1.0
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - Aylesbury Area *
- Appeal type
- other · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- community-institutional · Unknown
- Inspector
- Coffey L
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Need for the proposed prison
- Sports provision
- Benefits of the proposed development
- Transport
- Alternative sites
- Heritage
- Landscape impacts
- Recruitment issues
What decided it
The cumulative weight of the economic, social, sustainability and biodiversity benefits, together with the lack of realistic alternative sites, outweighed the landscape and heritage harms in the overall planning balance.
The benefits (significant economic and social benefits, moderate need, sustainability, BNG, transport and lack of alternative sites) outweighed the harms (substantial landscape harm, great weight less than substantial heritage harm, and moderate harm to the NDHA), so that despite conflict with the development plan overall, permission should be granted.
Framework references: 11, 48, 56, 57, 85, 96, 99, 100, 103, 104, 105, 110, 154, 174, 180, 185, 199, 200, 202, 203, 208, 209, 81
Plan policies cited: Policy S1, Policy S2, Policy T1, Policy BE1, Policy BE2, Policy NE1, Policy NE4, Policy NE5, Policy NE7, Policy I2, Policy C4, Policy 1 (Buckinghamshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan), Policy 12
Judgments cited: Trusthouse Forte Hotels Ltd v Secretary of State (1987) 53 P. & C.R. 293; Derbyshire Dales DC v Secretary of State [2010] 1 P. & C.R. 19; R (Langley Park School for Girls Governors) v Bromley LBC [2010] 1 P. & C.R. 10; R (oao Brommell) v. Reading BC ([2018] EWHC 3529 (Admin))
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.