®Planning appeal decision
Land Adjacent Pond View Sturt Green Holyport Maidenhead, Maidenhead, SL6 2JF
outline planning application (all matters reserved other than access) for 4 serviced plots for self-build and custom housebuilding
- Authority
- Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Hearing
- Development
- residential · Minor Dwellings
- Inspector
- Savage K
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal amounts to inappropriate development in the Green Belt, including the effect on the openness of the Green Belt and the purposes of including land within it
- If the development is inappropriate within the Green Belt, whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, is clearly outweighed by other considerations so as to amount to the very special circumstances necessary to justify it
What decided it
The very substantial shortfall in delivery of self-build and custom housebuilding plots against statutory registers was found to carry overriding weight that clearly outweighed the identified Green Belt harm.
the substantial harm from inappropriate development and loss of openness to the Green Belt was clearly outweighed by the overriding weight attached to unmet self-build and custom housebuilding need, together with limited-weight benefits, so that very special circumstances were found to exist
Framework references: 149, 57
Plan policies cited: Policy QP5, Policy HO2(4), Policy HO2(5), Policy SP2
Judgments cited: Julian Wood v The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Gravesham Borough Council EWCA Civ 195 - 9 February 2015
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.