Whiston Hall Golf Club, Black Lane, Whiston, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST10 2HZ

remodelling of existing golf course to improve on-site water management, accessibility, and player safety through the importation of engineering materials to regrade and reprofile part of the existing golf course, with the construction of new attenuation and irrigation ponds, erection of an associated pump house and proposed landscaping and tree planting

Authority: Staffordshire County Council
Appeal type: major · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
Inspector: Coyne C

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the proposed development is compatible with nearby uses having regard to its effect on local amenity and the environment in relation to noise, dust, water pollution, highway safety and visual impact
Whether it has been sufficiently demonstrated that the proposal is reasonable, necessary, comprehensive, detailed, practicable and achievable within the timescale envisaged

What decided it

The proposal accords with the development plan and the Framework when read as a whole, with adverse impacts sufficiently mitigated by conditions and the benefits (particularly health and accessibility improvements) outweighing any residual impacts.

Framework references: 12, 55, 56, 102, 217

Plan policies cited: Policy 1.1, Policy 1.3, Policy 1.4, Policy 1.6, Policy 4.1, Policy 4.2, Policy SS 11, Policy SD 4, Policy SD 5, Policy DC 1, Policy DC 2, Policy DC 3, Policy NE 1, Development and Management Principles 8.1, Development and Management Principles 8.2, Development and Management Principles 8.3

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