®Planning appeal decision
Land North of Jubilee Drive and Highgrove Crescent, Polegate, BN26 6FG
Planning appeal 3310445 at Land North of Jubilee Drive and Highgrove Crescent, Polegate, BN26 6FG (Wealden District Council) was allowed on 27 June 2023 by Inspector Miles H, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: whether the site would be a suitable location for housing including with regard to its accessibility by sustainable methods of transport.
residential development (use class C3) comprising up to 180 dwellings; informal and formal open space, footpaths, cycleways and internal roads; associated parking, landscaping, planting, noise attenuation measures, utilities, drainage infrastructure and groundworks. All matters are reserved with the exception of vehicular access into the site, to be taken from Highgrove Crescent
- Authority
- Wealden District Council
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Major dwellings
- Inspector
- Miles H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- whether the site would be a suitable location for housing including with regard to its accessibility by sustainable methods of transport
- the quality of living conditions for future occupiers with particular regard to noise and disturbance
What decided it
The Council's inability to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply, combined with the substantial housing and social benefits of the scheme, outweighed the conflict with restrictive development boundary policies.
The adverse impacts of conflicting with development boundary policies GD2 and DC17 were afforded only limited weight due to the housing land supply shortfall; the considerable benefits of 180 new homes, affordable housing provision, self-build plots, public open space creation, and improved bus services significantly and demonstrably outweighed these limited adverse impacts, applying the tilted balance under NPPF paragraph 11(d).
What the Inspector cited
- Development plan policies
- Policy GD2Policy DC17Policy TR3Policy SPO7Policy EN8Policy SP01Policy EN27Policy AFH1Policy WCS14Policy EN1
- National Planning Policy Framework
- Paragraph 11
- Judgments
- Bernard Wheatcroft Ltd v SSE & Harborough DC [1982] P&CR 233
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
See how each was appliedThe decision letter
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