®Planning appeal decision
Orchard Herbs, Lake End Road, Dorney, SL4 6QS
an ultra-advanced multi-dimensional highly sustainable renewable energy park with high-capacity battery storage, 416 bedroom hotel, and two office units, extensive landscaping/planting and vertical foresting to buildings, bio gas waste digester energy unit, incorporating alternative and emerging transport solutions and an advanced educational facility. Summary of Recommendation: The appeal be dismissed
- Authority
- Buckinghamshire Council - South Bucks Area *
- Appeal type
- major · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- leisure-sport · Other Major Developments
- Inspector
- Butcher H
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the proposal would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt having regard to the Framework and any relevant development plan policies
- The effect of the proposal on the openness of the Green Belt
- Whether the proposal would preserve the setting of surrounding listed buildings, and the effect of the development on the significance of nearby conservation areas
- The effect of the proposal on the character and appearance of the surrounding area
- The effect of the proposal on highway safety and the surrounding highway network
- The effect of the development on flood risk and surface water drainage
- The effect of the development on the vitality of town centres
- Whether any harm by reason of inappropriateness, and any other harm, would be clearly outweighed by other considerations, so as to amount to the very special circumstances required to justify the proposal
What decided it
The substantial harm to the Green Belt by reason of inappropriateness, combined with the great weight given to less than substantial heritage harm and significant harms to character and appearance, highway safety and flood risk, were not clearly outweighed by the economic and other benefits, such that very special circumstances do not exist to justify the development.
Framework references: 11, 38, 48, 56, 57, 91, 92, 111, 139, 153, 154, 155, 156, 200, 208
Plan policies cited: Policy GB1, Policy GB4, Policy T2, Policy EP3, Policy TR5, Policy TR7, Policy 6, Policy 7, Policy 8, Policy 9, Policy 10, Policy 11, Policy 13
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.