®Planning appeal decision
St Gabriel's Court, St Gabriel's Road, Bristol, BS5 0RT
change of use of existing commercial building to create 8 no. residential flats (Use Class C3) with parking and associated works
- Authority
- Bristol City Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Marigold O
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the change of use would be appropriate having regard to development plan policies that seek to retain employment floorspace in the area
- the effect of the proposal on the industrial heritage of the area, including on the adjacent locally listed building
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply and the positive support in NPPF paragraph 123 for using employment land for homes in areas of high housing demand outweighed the conflict with development plan employment retention policies.
The conflict with development plan employment retention policies (given moderate weight) was outweighed by the significant benefit of providing eight additional residential units to address the Council's housing undersupply, assessed against the Framework taken as a whole under the tilted balance.
Framework references: 11, 123, 219
Plan policies cited: Policy BCS3, Policy BCS8, Policy BCS22, Policy DM12, Policy DM3, Policy BCS17
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.